Vida

A fox in the Sarıkamış district of Kars province, Turkey

Riqueza

"Affluence vs. Poverty", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Aarão

Aaron's Tomb near Petra, Jordan

Serge Gainsbourg

"Ce mortel ennui" (1965)

Maná

"Manna in the Desert", Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (c. 1740)

Jonathan Sacks

Conversations with John Anderson

Vilnius

Jewish Cemetery (1922)

Vida

Gelada monkeys watch as the sun sets over the Simien Mountains, Ethiopia

Rebeca

"The Veiled Rebecca", Giovanni Maria Benzoni (1876)

Yuval Levin

"The Invisible Crisis" (2019)

Mordechai Kedar

(1/2)

(2/2)

"L'Chayim"

Labour

"What Role Does Antisemitism Play in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party?", Dave Rich 

Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky

Abdullah II

King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein of Jordan Discusses Middle East Issues (26th November 2019)

Vida

 

A lineated barbet (right) clashes with a jungle myna in the Morigaon district of Assam, India

Sigd

Ethiopian Jewish leaders 'Kessim' pray during the Sigd holiday on a hill overlooking Jerusalem (October 31, 2013)

Christine Hayes

"Identities in Crisis: Re-Imagining The Jewish Community"

Irving Berlin

"Blue Skies", Frank Sinatra

Jonas

"The End of Jonah", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Rebeca

"Rebecca et Eliézer", Alexandre Cabanel (1883)

Norman Podhoretz

"Is America Exceptional?" (2012)

Vida

Two grasshoppers mating at night in Spain. 

Scientists say light pollution is a significant but often overlooked driver of the rapid decline of insect populations

Israel

"Be Strong and of Good Courage", David Makovsky and Dennis Ross

Irving Berlin

"Puttin' On The Ritz", Lew Conrad

"Golda" de Sagi Bornstein e Udi Nir

Trailer

A-WA

"VeDavid Yafe Einayim"  (ודוד יפה עיניים)

Yoram Hazony

 "On Nationalism and Scripture"

 

“(...) the Old Testament – well, that is something quite different: every respect for the Old Testament! I find in it great men, heroic landscape and something of utmost rarity on earth, the incomparable naivety of the strong heart; even more, I find a people.”

"The Genealogy of Morality", Friedrich Nietzsche, CUP, p.107

Vida

 

A kookaburra perches on a charred tree after a bushfire in Wallabi Point, New South Wales, Australia

John Adams

Gilbert Stuart (1800-1815)

Daniel Gordis

AIPAC (2019)

Israel

"A Pilgrimage through Palestine" (1920's)

Raphael Chaim Isaac Carregal

Jonathan Sacks

"Is our most famous prayer a prayer?" | Talmud Talks

Leonard Cohen

"Leonard Cohen on Preparing for Death" | The New Yorker

Vida

 

Colourful autumn foliage adorns Mount Nebiyan, in Ondokuz Mayıs district, Samsun, Turkey

לפיכך נברא אדם יחידי ללמדך שכל המאבד נפש אחת מישראל מעלה עליו הכתוב כאילו איבד עולם מלא וכל המקיים נפש אחת מישראל מעלה עליו הכתוב כאילו קיים עולם מלא

The court tells the witnesses: Therefore, Adam the first man was created alone, to teach you that with regard to anyone who destroys one soul from the Jewish people, i.e., kills one Jew, the verse ascribes him blame as if he destroyed an entire world, as Adam was one person, from whom the population of an entire world came forth. And conversely, anyone who sustains one soul from the Jewish people, the verse ascribes him credit as if he sustained an entire world.

Sanhedrin 37a
 

Joseph Telushkin

(L'Chayim)

Man is a dialectical being; an inner schism runs through his personality at every level. This schism is not due to man's revolt against his Maker, as Christian theology has preached since the days of Augustine. Unlike this view, according to which it was man who, by his sinful rebellion against his Maker, precipitated the split in human nature, the Judaic view posits that the schism is willed by God as the source of man's greatness and his election as a singular charismatic being. Man is a great and creative being because he is torn by conflict and is always in a state of ontological tenseness and perplexity. The fact that the creative gesture is associated with agony is a result of this contradiction, which pervades the whole personality of man.

"Majesty and Humility", Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1973)

Abdullah I bin Al-Hussein

(Between 1939 and 1945)

Emma Lazarus

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

"Lonely Man of Faith": Trailer

Ismael

"Abraham sends away Hagar and Ishmael", Josef Danhauser (1836)

Ernest Bloch

"Helvetia" (1929)

Vida

Bohemian waxwings eating rowan berries in the Kostroma region of Russia

Marraquexe

Al Azama synagogue in Marrakech

Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht, Berlim (9–10 November 1938)

Alexandre II da Rússia

(1878-1881)

Emil Fackenheim

"Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim Conference" (Toronto, 2015)

América

Puck Cartoon "The Modern Moses" (1881)

Weimar

"The Weimar Republic: Germany's First Democracy", Richard Evans

וַיְהִ֥י דְבַר־יְהוָ֖ה אֵלַ֥י לֵאמֹֽר

The word of the LORD came to me:

בְּטֶ֨רֶם אצורך [אֶצָּרְךָ֤] בַבֶּ֙טֶן֙ יְדַעְתִּ֔יךָ וּבְטֶ֛רֶם תֵּצֵ֥א מֵרֶ֖חֶם הִקְדַּשְׁתִּ֑יךָ נָבִ֥יא לַגּוֹיִ֖ם נְתַתִּֽיךָ

Before I created you in the womb, I selected you; Before you were born, I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet concerning the nations. 

Jeremiah 1:4-5

Vida

 

A nuthatch foraging on the 1,000-year-old Allerton oak in Calderstones park, Liverpool

A-WA

"Bayti Fi Rasi"

Marceline Loridans-Ivens

"JUIF?" Selon Marceline Loridans-Ivens (2013)

Mordecai Manuel Noah

 "Discourse on the Restoration of the Jews" (1844)

Shabbatai Zvi

"The Afterlives of Shabbatai Zvi: A Lecture on the Memory of Heresy", David Biale

Israel

Israel, as seen from space (Jessica Meir/ NASA)

Ezra Stiles

"Rev. Ezra Stiles", Samuel King (1771)

Vida

Two sleeping foxes cuddled up together at a wildlife park in Shanghai, China

Josy Eisenberg

(1/2)

(2/2)

«La Traversée du Désert» (2011) 

לִמְנ֣וֹת יָ֭מֵינוּ כֵּ֣ן הוֹדַ֑ע וְ֝נָבִ֗א לְבַ֣ב חָכְמָֽה

Teach us to count our days rightly, that we may obtain a wise heart. 

Psalm 90:12

Ernest Bloch

"Suite Hébraïque" (1951)

וְאֵ֗לֶּה שְׁמוֹת֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הַבָּאִ֖ים מִצְרָ֑יְמָה אֵ֣ת יַעֲקֹ֔ב אִ֥ישׁ וּבֵית֖וֹ בָּֽאוּ

These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each coming with his household

רְאוּבֵ֣ן שִׁמְע֔וֹן לֵוִ֖י וִיהוּדָֽה

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah

יִשָּׂשכָ֥ר זְבוּלֻ֖ן וּבְנְיָמִֽן

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin

דָּ֥ן וְנַפְתָּלִ֖י גָּ֥ד וְאָשֵֽׁר

Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

וַֽיְהִ֗י כָּל־נֶ֛פֶשׁ יֹצְאֵ֥י יֶֽרֶךְ־יַעֲקֹ֖ב שִׁבְעִ֣ים נָ֑פֶשׁ וְיוֹסֵ֖ף הָיָ֥ה בְמִצְרָֽיִם

The total number of persons that were of Jacob’s issue came to seventy, Joseph being already in Egypt. 

Exodus 1:1-5
 

Robert Alter

Robert Alter on "Prophecy and Anti-Prophecy in the Poetry of Bialik" (2016)

Dovid Bashevkin

"The Torment of Time: A Jewish Perspective on Time & Pain" (2014)
 

Vida

 

A silverback mountain gorilla named Segasira looks up as he lies under a tree in the Volcanoes national park, Rwanda

Ezequiel

"The Vision of the Valley of the Dry Bones", Gustave Doré (1865)

Alain Finkielkraut

"JUIF?" Selon Alain Finkielkraut (2013)

Carl Burgos

(1940)

Roger Williams

Roger Williams statue by Franklin Simmons

Pittsburgh

"Jewish community still healing one year after mass shooting"

Menasseh ben Israel

Steven Nadler

Vida

A bearded tit stands on a reed near Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China

Veneza

Canton synagogue, Venice

Hannah Szenes

Budapest (1939)

Irão

"Despite tension between Iran and Israel, Iran’s Jewish minority feels at home" (PBS)

Helena Corrêa de Barros

"Suissa" (1948)

Simchat Torah

Synagogue in Mea Shearim in Jerusalem

Kafka

 "Is that Kafka? 99 Finds": An Evening with Reiner Stach 

Vida

A badger in Kidderminster, UK

Marc Weitzmann

"JUIF?" Selon Marc Weitzmann (2014)

אֶ֭בֶן מָאֲס֣וּ הַבּוֹנִ֑ים הָ֝יְתָ֗ה לְרֹ֣אשׁ פִּנָּֽה

The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. 

Psalm 118:22

 

Jonas

"Why are You Here? Truth, Comfort, and Religious Motivation", Dovid Bashevkin

Salgueiro

 Willow tree (  (ערבה

וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֑ה כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה בְּנִ֥י בְכֹרִ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the LORD: Israel is My first-born son.

Exodus 4:22

Helena Corrêa de Barros

Vida

An oak tree in Aggtelek national park near Jósvafő, Hungary

Harold Bloom ע״ה

Sucot

Libyan Jews sit in a sukkah in Tripoli (c. 1920s)

Cantor Moshe Oysher

"Kiddush"

Paul Mendes-Flohr

"What Constitutes Jewish Spiritual Renewal?"

Sucot

Yom Kippur

A-WA

 "Al Asad"

Vida

A frog sits on a rain-spattered lotus leaf in a pond in Lalitpur, Nepal

Jonathan Sacks

"An Unforgiving Age"

Now therefore write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be My witness against the people of Israel.

Deuteronomy 31:19
 

Milena Jesenská

Ernest Bloch

"Nigun" (Itzhak Perlman)