Budapeste

When the time came for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb! While she was in labor, one of them put out his hand, and the midwife tied a crimson thread on that hand, to signify: This one came out first. But just then he drew back his hand, and out came his brother; and she said, “What a breach you have made for yourself!” So he was named Perez. Afterward his brother came out, on whose hand was the crimson thread; he was named Zerah.

Genesis 38:27-30
 

Vida

 Swimming Sea Cucumber

Randolph Braham ע״ה

William Goldman ע״ה

(1973)

Balthus

"The Cat of La Méditerranée", Balthus (1949)

Hanukkah

"Likhtelekh", Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell

Arthur Szyk

L'Chayim: "The Art of Arthur Szyk"

América

"Jewish Ideas and the American Founders: The Yiddish Letter and the Declaration", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Resistência

"Resistance in France" (Yale)

Vida

 

Crowds of white swans on the Swan Lake in Sanmenxia, in China’s Henan province

 

Contemporary etching of the Hep-Hep Riot”in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, by Johann Voltz (1819)

Paris

"Grande Synagogue", Paris

Primeiro Templo

 

A First Temple period weight measure called a ‘beka’ was unearthed in a City of David excavation 

in the Davidson Archaeological Park and discovered in the wet sifting project in Jerusalem’s Tsurim Valley

"Esau Meeting Jacob", Dalziel Brothers (1881)

Philip Roth

"Philip Roth at 70", with David Remnick (2003)

Gershom Mendes Seixas

 (c. 1784)

Rosh Hashanah

“Is Rosh Hashanah about self-reflection?“, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Vida

Penguin jumping on to the ice in Antarctica

Raquel

"The Death of Rachel", Gustav Metz (1847)

Woody Allen

"Annie Hall" - The Opening Scene (1977)

Babel

 

Mosaic depicting the building of the Tower of Babel, Huqoq synagogue (5th century)

 

Gershom Scholem

Gershom Scholem sitting in Sukka learning Zohar (1925)

1948

Benny Morris (2018)

Vichy

"The Dark Years: Vichy France" (Yale)

Vida

Highland Fold Cat

Moses Mendelssohn

"Mendelssohn, Kant, and Freedom of Religion", Paul Guyer

Varsóvia

Wife of Nat Gutman, Warsaw, Roman Vishniac (1938)

Jonah Goldberg

"Suicide of the West"

"Einstein at Work", Roman Vishniac (1942) 

 

Stan Lee

 

The first issue of The X-Men, with a cover by Jack Kirby and Sol Brodsky (September 1963)

Vida

Flamingos on the muddy banks of Lake Bogoria, Kenya

"Die Stadt ohne Juden" de Hans K. Breslauer

"The City without Jews" - Trailer (1924)

Kristallnacht

A photo taken on 10 November 1938 showing Jewish shops on Potsdamer Strasse damaged during Kristallnacht is displayed in the same location 80 years on (Berlin)

Magia

Angel writing’ and how to get rid of scorpions from a book of spells (included in a mysterious magic-filled black suitcase given to Dr. Max Brodny in Moscow in 1959)
 

Kishinev

"Catastrophe and the Contemporary Jewish Imagination: The 1903 Kishinev Pogrom as Fact and Fiction", Steven J. Zipperstein

Stan Lee ע״ה

Yuval Levin

"In Search of Solidarity in the Age of Trump"

Vidui

"The Power of Confession", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Vida

Baby iguanas feed on lettuce

Sabbath

"Sabbath in a Time of Unrest", Judith Shulevitz

Iémen

"Yemen Blues", Jat Mahibathi

 "Golden Autumn", Isaac Levitan

Kristallnacht

A Jewish-run shop in Berlin after being vandalized and covered with anti-Semitic graffiti (November 10, 1938)

Kindertransport

Jewish Kindertransport children arriving in London (February, 1939)

Emoção

"Religious Emotion", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Vida

Two pairs of spinner dolphins mating in the Red Sea, Egypt

Paula Fredrikson

"When does Christianity Begin?"

Aaron Copland

"The Promise of Living"

Ferrara

Hassidismo

 

Wooden spring balanced figure of a Hasidic Jew that sways as if davening. 

This balancing figure is one of the more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection 

of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials, Poland (19th century)

Tempo

"Shabbat & The Holidays - A Tale of Two Astronauts", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Yoram Hazony

"The Virtue of Nationalism"

Vida

Crise

"Not your Parents' Crisis", Rabbi Jonathan Sacks & Jonathan Haidt

I observed all the happenings beneath the sun, and I found that all is futile and pursuit of wind:
A twisted thing that cannot be made straight, a lack that cannot be made good.

Koheleth 1:14-16