Vida

 

 

 

A deer pauses while walking through a snow-covered forest near Frankfurt, Germany

 

Roma

 

 

"Why Rome Collapsed", Barry Strauss 

 

Tikvah

 

 

 

"The Return of Jewish Exceptionalism: Five Bold Ideas", Eric Cohen

 

Esquerda

 

 

 

 "Is Antisemitism the Gateway Drug to Socialism?", with Yascha Mounk 

 

Setsuzo Kotsuji

 

 

 

The ultimate question is: where was God at Auschwitz? For years I sought refuge in Buber’s image of an eclipse of God. This image, still meaningful in other respects, no longer seems to me applicable to Auschwitz. Most assuredly no redeeming Voice is heard from Auschwitz, or ever will be heard. However, a commanding Voice is being heard, and has, however faintly, been heard from the start. Religious Jews hear it, and they identify its source. Secularist Jews also hear it, even though perforce they leave it unidentified. At Auschwitz, Jews came face to face with absolute evil. They were and still are singled out by it, but in the midst of it they hear an absolute commandment: Jews are forbidden to grant posthumous victories to Hitler. They are commanded to survive as Jews, lest the Jewish people perish. They are commanded to remember the victims of Auschwitz, lest their memory perish. They are forbidden to despair of man and his world, and to escape into either cynicism or otherworldliness, lest they cooperate in delivering the world over to the forces of Auschwitz. Finally, they are forbidden to despair of the God of Israel, lest Judaism perish. A secularist Jew cannot make himself believe by a mere act of will, nor can he be commanded to do so; yet he can perform the commandment of Auschwitz. And a religious Jew who has stayed with his God may be forced into new, possibly revolutionary, relationships with Him. One possibility, however, is wholly unthinkable. A Jew may not respond to Hitler’s attempt to destroy Judaism by himself cooperating in its destruction. In ancient times, the unthinkable Jewish sin was idolatry. Today, it is to respond to Hitler by doing his work.

“Jewish Faith and the Holocaust: A Fragment", Emil L. Fackenheim (1968)  

Irão

 

 

"Breaking Iran's Machinery of Oppression" 

 

Vida

 

 

 Meet Benedict Cumberbat. 

The first admission of the year to RSPCA West Hatch, Somerset, UK, 

came in the form of a brown long-eared bat. 

 

Irão

 

 

"If Tehran Falls, What then?", with Karim Sadjadpour 

 

Irão!

 

 

"Enghelab", Fereydoun Farrokhzad (1980's)

 

"Marty Supreme" de Josh Safdie

 

 

 

Official Trailer 

 

Bret Stephens

 

 

"The Myth of World Order"

 

Venezuela

 

 

"How Venezuela Became a Narco-Terrorist State" 

 

 

“In our own lives the voice of God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time. Only at the end of our years, dispelling some of our intimate illusions, do we learn how to spell the meaning of life — discovering how scattered syllables form a single phrase.”

Abraham Joshua Heschel, "God in Search of Man" (paraphrase)

Vida

 

 

 

 A green sea turtle hatchling is released in Bajulmati Beach, Malang, East Java, Indonesia

 

Lucian Freud

  

 

 

"Lucian Freud: The British Painter Who Redefined Portraits - His Life, Art & Obsession" 

 

Irão

 

 

 

"IRAN RIOTS 101: Everything you need to know, explained by an Iranian" 

 

Netanyahu

 

 

 

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Remarks at a JNS Event in Miami"