Feliz Ano Novo!

Amos Oz ע״ה

Yitz Greenberg

Conversation with Rabbi Irving Greenberg (2011)

Sukkot

"How essential are Sukkot’s rituals?", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Moisés

The "Sister Hagadah", Spain (1325-1374)

Scenes from the Life of Moses, f. 12.v and f. 13

Walter Kaufmann

"Kierkegaard & the Crisis of Religion" (1960's)

Israel

A mother and her child, location unknown (1945)

Vida

Wild pink pigeon

Natal

"Let it Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", Dean Martin

Simcha Rotem ע״ה

Simcha Rotem, last surviving fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, died in Jerusalem Saturday at the age of 94

Masada

"Hazor"

Sentido

"Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski on Purpose"

Rembrandt

Rembrandt’s etching of David

Zebulon Simentov

The last Jew in Afghanistan

What has been, has been.

Pesachim 108a
 

Vida

Turtle dove

Issachar Ber Ryback

"Synagogue in Pianov Sokolski"

Yitz Greenberg

(1/2)

 (2/2)

"God, Human Responsibility and the Future of the Covenant" (2013)

Israel

Maabara (1950)

Camille Pissarro

"Orchard in Bloom, Louveciennes" (1872)

Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt; how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. 

Deuteronomy 25: 17-18

Victor David Brenner

If you look very carefully at a penny, you’ll notice something you’ve probably never seen before: initials pressed into the dark underline of Lincoln’s bicep.

 Those initials stand for Victor David Brenner—the Jewish-American engraver, medalist, and designer of the Lincoln cent.

Vida

Bison in the snow

Liberdade

"Judaism and Human Freedom", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Séforis

At Zippori pool where Judah Hanasi may have bathed, a rare tiny pagan bull found (3rd century CE)

Relatives of Amichai and Shira Ish-Ran attend the funeral of their baby, who was born prematurely after his mother 
was wounded in a terror attack outside the West Bank settlement of Ofra, at Mount of Olives ceremony in Jerusalem on December 12, 2018

Oneg Shabbat

"Time Capsules under the Rubble: The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto", Samuel Kassow

 

The first 'Oneg Shabbat' archive cache is recovered from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland (September 1946)

Martírio

 

"Martyrdom: The Intersection of Jewish Law and Theology", Chaim Saiman

Vida

Etruscan shrew

Yoram Hazony

"God, Nationalism, and Conservatism: A Jewish View"

Menachem Begin

Picture from the arrest of Menachem Begin by the NKVD (September 1940)

"The Maccabees", Wojciech Stattler (1842)

Nieuwenhuys Hanukiah (1751)

"The Light of Judaism", Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

"Bohemian Chanukah" (a Queen adaptation), Six13

"Hanukkah - The Triumph of Monotheism", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Feliz Hanukkah!

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)