28 de fevereiro de 2015


“People don’t believe in ideas, they believe in people who believe in ideas".

Zeev Mankowitz

James Kugel


"The Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Bible Interpretation"

Bandeira


Herzl's proposed flag, as sketched in his diaries. 
(Although he drew a Star of David, he did not describe it as such)

"We have no flag, and we need one. If we desire to lead many men, we must raise a symbol above their heads. I would suggest a white flag, with seven golden stars. The white field symbolizes our pure new life; the stars are the seven golden hours of our working-day. For we shall march into the Promised Land carrying the badge of honor."

Der Judenstaat, 1896

The Beastie Boys


 
"Intergalactic"

27 de fevereiro de 2015

Vida



Photographer Jean–Marie Ghislain was terrified of sharks – until he swam with them. "Ever since my first dive with sharks in Mexico, I have been touched by their beauty and power"

Mar da Galileia


"Jesus and the miraculous catch of fish in the Sea of Galilee", Raphael

Europa


(Never colonized by Europe: Japan, Korea, Thailand and Liberia)

Jerusalém


 (Circa 1870)

26 de fevereiro de 2015


"Jews tell the best jokes because they know that life isn’t funny".

 Howard Jacobson

Estrela de David


Star of David in the Ari Ashkenazi Synagogue, Safed

Jesus da Nazaré



Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you - you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?' For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your Heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's trouble is enough for today.

Matthew, 6: 25-34

Laranjas


(Circa 1930)

25 de fevereiro de 2015

Martin Luther King Jr.



Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

Medo



Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.

We ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small
Does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking
So that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine,
As children do.
We were born to make manifest
The glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us;
It's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.


"Our Deepest Fear", Marianne Williamson

Refugiados


Syrian Refugees, Northern Iraq

Dar



"The Labour of Gratitude" (Terumah), Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Porto de Jaffa


View of the port by Félix Bonfils (1867-1870)

24 de fevereiro de 2015

Vida



A Buddhist monk plays with a tiger at the Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua, or Tiger Temple

Ruth Wisse


"On anti-Semitism, Jewish Politics, and Yiddish Literature"

Mar da Galileia


Sea of Galilee with Mount Hermon

David


"David and Goliath", Guido Reni (1610)

22 de fevereiro de 2015

A. J. Heschel e Martin Luther King, Jr.




"Praying with their Legs: Rabbi Abraham Heschel and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.", Susannah Heschel

Bob Dylan


"Masters Of War", Odetta

Ein Harod


Ein Harod (initial site) (1921)

The tents of the first settlers, members of the labour batallion are visible next to the fountain of Gideon

Vida


Sarus Crane

21 de fevereiro de 2015

Malária


Main symptoms of malaria

Egipto



"Lamentations over the Death of the Firstborn of Egypt", Charles Sprague Pearce (1877)

Yiddish Tango



"Sheindale", Jacob Sandler

Ein Harod


Jascha Heifetz in concert at Ein Harod (1926)

19 de fevereiro de 2015

Vida


Spectacled Owl

Bret Stephens


"Bret Stephens with Fareed Zakaria"

Anti-semitismo


"The Eternal Jew" (היהודי הנצחי)

This disgusting video was created by the Samaria Citizens Committee, a far-right settler group in Israel

18 de fevereiro de 2015

Sefarad


 "La Sirena", Sarah Gorby 

Yotam Ottolenghi


Saffron Chicken Salad

17 de fevereiro de 2015

Vida


 
Snoring Hummingbird

Sabbath



"Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; you shall not do any work - you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your ox or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the stranger in your settlements, so that your male and female slave may rest as you do. Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God freed you from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the sabbath day."

Deuteronomy, 5: 12-15
(JPS)

Paris


"10 Hours of Walking in Paris as a Jew"

Samarkand


Shah-i Zinda Tuman Aqa Complex

Hasidic New Wave


"Satmer Hafakos #6"

16 de fevereiro de 2015

Ídolos



"Their idols are silver and gold,
 the work of men's hands.
 They have mouths, but cannot speak,
 eyes, but cannot see;
 they have ears, but cannot hear,
 noses, but cannot smell;
 they have hands, but cannot touch,
 feet, but cannot walk;
 they can make no sound in their throats.
 Those who fashion them,
 all who trust in them,
 shall become like them".

Psalm 115: 4-8
 

Mahler


(Data desconhecida)

Vida


(Antarctica)

Aleppo


Aleppo, Syria - The Citadel of Aleppo (May 26, 2013)

15 de fevereiro de 2015

14 de fevereiro de 2015

Grécia



Athena holding a helmet and a spear, with an owl. Attributed to the Brygos Painter (circa 490–480 BC)

Imigrantes


 7 June, off the coast of Libya

Lorde


"Yellow Flicker Beat"

Uzbequistão


Jewish woman, Tashkent, Uzbekistan (c. 1990s)

13 de fevereiro de 2015

Vida


Finches, Galapagos Islands

Kirk Douglas


Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovitch Demsky), "Spartacus" (1960)

Moralidade



"Healing the Heart of Darkness" (Mishpatim), Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

12 de fevereiro de 2015

Lentilhas


Sopa de Lentilhas (Egipto) 

José


"Joseph, Overseer of Pharaoh`s Graneries", Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Los Pasharos Sefaradis



Yigdal יִגְדַּל (Nihavent) 

11 de fevereiro de 2015

Elliott Erwitt


New York City. Evening scene with the Chrysler Building (1955)

10 de fevereiro de 2015

Atenas



Silver tetradrachm coin at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon depicting the owl of Athena (circa 480–420 BC). 
The inscription "ΑΘΕ" is an abbreviation of ΑΘΗΝΑΙΟΝ, which may be translated as "of the Athenians". In daily use the Athenian drachmas were called glaukes (γλαῦκες, owls).

Benny Morris



"The 1948 War reconsidered" 

Tabernáculo



"The Israelites Encamped About the Tabernacle Erected in the Wilderness", Dom Augustin Calmet