וַתֵּ֣רֶא רָחֵ֗ל כִּ֣י לֹ֤א יָֽלְדָה֙ לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב וַתְּקַנֵּ֥א רָחֵ֖ל בַּאֲחֹתָ֑הּ וַתֹּ֤אמֶר אֶֽל־יַעֲקֹב֙ הָֽבָה־לִּ֣י בָנִ֔ים וְאִם־אַ֖יִן מֵתָ֥ה אָנֹֽכִי

When Rachel saw that she had borne Jacob no children, she became envious of her sister; and Rachel said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die.” 

Genesis 30:1

 

Vida

 A photo from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 

shows a desert locust swarm flying over a bush in Ololokwe, Kenya

Hebraico

The Hebrew Language", Ilan Stavans (2014)

Estaline

"Stalin - Inside the Terror", BBC (2003)

Egipto

Scientists recreate sound an ancient mummy's vocal tract would have made (audio)

Josué

"Joshua is Appointed as Moses' Successor", Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1852-60)

Bíblia

"‘Slave Bible’ removed Passages to Instill Obedience and Uphold Slavery"

וַאֲנִ֥י אַקְשֶׁ֖ה אֶת־לֵ֣ב פַּרְעֹ֑ה וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֧י אֶת־אֹתֹתַ֛י וְאֶת־מוֹפְתַ֖י בְּאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם

But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that I may multiply My signs and marvels in the land of Egypt. 

Exodus 7:3
 

Vida

The endangered kea is the world’s only alpine parrot, and one of the most intelligent birds

They show no fear of humans and are thieves and pranksters

"Tumbalalaika"

 The Barry Sisters

Jonathan Sacks

Rabbi Sacks in conversation with Rabbi Meir Soloveichik (2020)

Jean Carroll

Arenque

Hering

Shabbatai Zvi

"The Afterlives of Shabbatai Zvi: A Lecture on the Memory of Heresy", David Biale (2018)
 

Salo Wittmayer Baron

"Ani Maamin"

Eitan Katz (2011)

Vida

 

A mimosa tree blooms one-and-a-half months early in Sochi, Russia, because of abnormally warm weather

Espinosa

"The Philosophy of Spinoza & Leibniz", Bryan Magee and Anthony Quinton (1987)

Mulheres

"America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today", Pamela Nadell

Hugo Winckler

(circa 1900)

Wilhelm Werner

(1934-1938)

King James Bible

"400 Years of the King James Bible", Robert Alter (2014)

Cripto Judeus

"Crypto-Jews: To Be and Not to Be", Ilan Stavans (2018)

Vida

 

Two blue and yellow macaws sit on the branch of a chaguaramo tree in Caracas, Venezuela

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֑ם לֹ֕א כִּֽי־עֶרְוַ֥ת הָאָ֖רֶץ בָּאתֶ֥ם לִרְאֽוֹת

And he said to them, “No, you have come to see the land in its nakedness” 

Genesis 42:12

 

Balthus

"The Street" (1933)

Kotzker Rebbe

Diáspora

Israel-Diaspora Relations (2020)

Susannah Heschel

"The Aryan Jesus in Nazi Germany: The Bible and the Holocaust" (2013)

וַיִּתֵּ֥ן אֶת־קֹל֖וֹ בִּבְכִ֑י וַיִּשְׁמְע֣וּ מִצְרַ֔יִם וַיִּשְׁמַ֖ע בֵּ֥ית פַּרְעֹֽה

His sobs were so loud that the Egyptians could hear, and so the news reached Pharaoh’s palace. 

Genesis 45:2

 

Vida

A Togian jungle flycatcher is among 10 new songbird species and subspecies

 identified on three previously under-explored Indonesian islands

Saadia Gaon

("Jews & Muslims - Intimate Strangers")

Adam Sandler

"Uncut Gems": Trailer

Jacob

"Jacob blesses his twelve sons", Pieter Tanjé (1791)

Semer Ensemble

 "Vorbei" (2016)

Gertrude Himmelfarb ע״ה

Israel

"Lessons of Leadership": Ambassador Dennis Ross and David Makovsky 

in Conversation with David Horovitz

Vida

The greater horseshoe bat

Bob Kane

Beastie Boys

"Intergalactic" (1998)

David Mamet

Arts & Ideas at the JCCSF (2018)

José

"Joseph being sold by his brothers", Zygmunt Sokołowski (1883)

הַאֲזִ֥ינוּ הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וַאֲדַבֵּ֑רָה וְתִשְׁמַ֥ע הָאָ֖רֶץ אִמְרֵי־פִֽי

Give ear, O heavens, let me speak; Let the earth hear the words I utter! 

יַעֲרֹ֤ף כַּמָּטָר֙ לִקְחִ֔י תִּזַּ֥ל כַּטַּ֖ל אִמְרָתִ֑י כִּשְׂעִירִ֣ם עֲלֵי־דֶ֔שֶׁא וְכִרְבִיבִ֖ים עֲלֵי־עֵֽשֶׂב

May my discourse come down as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, Like showers on young growth, Like droplets on the grass.

Deuteronomy 32:1-2

Wilhelm Werner

Werneck Asylum, Lower Franconia, Bavaria (1934-38)

Vida

A blue lined surgeonfish forages among dead coral off the island of Embudu near Male, Maldives 

וַיַּֽעַבְרוּ֩ אֲנָשִׁ֨ים מִדְיָנִ֜ים סֹֽחֲרִ֗ים וַֽיִּמְשְׁכוּ֙ וַיַּֽעֲל֤וּ אֶת־יוֹסֵף֙ מִן־הַבּ֔וֹר וַיִּמְכְּר֧וּ אֶת־יוֹסֵ֛ף לַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֖ים בְּעֶשְׂרִ֣ים כָּ֑סֶף וַיָּבִ֥יאוּ אֶת־יוֹסֵ֖ף מִצְרָֽיְמָה

When Midianite traders passed by, they pulled Joseph up out of the pit. They sold Joseph for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who brought Joseph to Egypt. 

Genesis 37:28

 

Mito

"The Problem of Myth in the Hebrew Bible", Peter Machinist (2012)

Monsey

"Antisemitism: Monsey Stabbings"

Jesus da Nazaré

"Jesus, the Law, and a "New" Covenant", Bart Ehrman (2016)

Eichmann

Deborah Lipstadt: The Adolf Eichmann Trial

Vida

A young jackdaw rests on a fence post in Altheim, western Germany

Hanukkah

"How to Light the Hanukkah Menorah"

Anita Diamant

(2018)

"Maoz Tzur"

Cantor Pierre Pinchik 

אַתָּה֙ תִּהְיֶ֣ה עַל־בֵּיתִ֔י וְעַל־פִּ֖יךָ יִשַּׁ֣ק כָּל־עַמִּ֑י רַ֥ק הַכִּסֵּ֖א אֶגְדַּ֥ל מִמֶּֽךָּ

You shall be in charge of my court, and by your command shall all my people be directed; only with respect to the throne shall I be superior to you.

Genesis 41:40

 

Tamar Elad-Appelbaum

"On the Threshold of a New Year" (2017)

Hanukkah

 

The 7-foot-tall candelabrum at a McDonald's has become a photo op in Manaus, Brazil

Vida

A Indian cabbage white butterfly flies near flower buds in Kathmandu, Nepal

Jesus da Nazaré

"Are the Gospels Historically Reliable?", Bart Ehrman debates Peter J Williams 

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

Franz Kafka

Hanukkah

Adam Sandler on Hanukkah - SNL (1994)

Hallel

Psalm 113 / Hallel from the Barcelona Haggadah (c. 1340)

S.Y. Agnon

"The Fiction of S.Y. Agnon, Noble Laureate", Alan Mintz (1)

Wadi Rum

Mountain in Wadi Rum, Jordan

Vida

Flamingos in Cakalburnu Lagoon on the Inciralti coast of Izmir, Turkey

"Go Down, Moses", Linda Tillery & Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell

כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה ק֣וֹל בְּרָמָ֤ה נִשְׁמָע֙ נְהִי֙ בְּכִ֣י תַמְרוּרִ֔ים רָחֵ֖ל מְבַכָּ֣ה עַל־בָּנֶ֑יהָ מֵאֲנָ֛ה לְהִנָּחֵ֥ם עַל־בָּנֶ֖יהָ כִּ֥י אֵינֶֽנּוּ

Thus said the LORD: A cry is heard in Ramah— Wailing, bitter weeping— Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted For her children, who are gone. 

Jeremiah, 31:15

 

Moisés

"Moses' Mother Jochebed and Sister Miriam", Aleksey Tyranov

Hanukkah

"Likhtelekh", Coro Hebraeico 

Mel Brooks

"Mel Brooks: Unwrapped": Trailer

Crise

"Crisis in Jewish Literature", Alan Mintz

Vida

A long-snouted seahorse in the Mare Piccolo, Taranto, Italy

The boom in seahorse poaching spells bust for the country’s coastal habitats

Finlândia

Helsinki Synagogue

Martin Buber

"Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent", Paul Mendes-Flohr

"Reconciliation of Jacob with Esau", Johann H. Schönfeld (c. 1640)

Tamar Elad Appelbaum

"Challenges Facing Israeli Identity" (2016)

Ídolos

 "Daniel and Cyrus before the Idol Bel", Rembrandt (1633)

Israel

"American Jews and Israel: can the Relationship be Saved?", 

Daniel Gordis and Thomas Friedman

Vida

A horned beetle in Quezon City, the Philippines

Nehemiah Nobel

וְהָֽעֹלָה֙ עַל־ר֣וּחֲכֶ֔ם הָי֖וֹ לֹ֣א תִֽהְיֶ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ אַתֶּ֣ם אֹמְרִ֗ים נִֽהְיֶ֤ה כַגּוֹיִם֙ כְּמִשְׁפְּח֣וֹת הָאֲרָצ֔וֹת לְשָׁרֵ֖ת עֵ֥ץ וָאָֽבֶן

And what you have in mind shall never come to pass—when you say, “We will be like the nations, like the families of the lands, worshiping wood and stone.” 

חַי־אָ֕נִי נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה אִם־לֹ֠א בְּיָ֨ד חֲזָקָ֜ה וּבִזְר֧וֹעַ נְטוּיָ֛ה וּבְחֵמָ֥ה שְׁפוּכָ֖ה אֶמְל֥וֹךְ עֲלֵיכֶֽם

As I live—declares the Lord GOD—I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with overflowing fury. 

Ezekiel 20:32-33
 

Hermann Cohen

(before 1906)

Kafka

וַיַּ֞רְא וְהִנֵּ֧ה בְאֵ֣ר בַּשָּׂדֶ֗ה וְהִנֵּה־שָׁ֞ם שְׁלֹשָׁ֤ה עֶדְרֵי־צֹאן֙ רֹבְצִ֣ים עָלֶ֔יהָ כִּ֚י מִן־הַבְּאֵ֣ר הַהִ֔וא יַשְׁק֖וּ הָעֲדָרִ֑ים וְהָאֶ֥בֶן גְּדֹלָ֖ה עַל־פִּ֥י הַבְּאֵֽר 

There before his eyes was a well in the open. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, for the flocks were watered from that well. The stone on the mouth of the well was large. 

Genesis 29:2

 

Rússia

"Leaving Mother Russia", Safam

Vida

 

A lone deer grazes on a charred ridge in the aftermath of the Kincade fire near Healdsburg, California

Shoah

"How is Prayer Possible after the Holocaust", David Hartman (2008)

וְנָתַתִּ֤י לָכֶם֙ לֵ֣ב חָדָ֔שׁ וְר֥וּחַ חֲדָשָׁ֖ה אֶתֵּ֣ן בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֑ם וַהֲסִ֨רֹתִ֜י אֶת־לֵ֤ב הָאֶ֙בֶן֙ מִבְּשַׂרְכֶ֔ם וְנָתַתִּ֥י לָכֶ֖ם לֵ֥ב בָּשָֽׂר

And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit into you: I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh; 

וְאֶת־רוּחִ֖י אֶתֵּ֣ן בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֑ם וְעָשִׂ֗יתִי אֵ֤ת אֲשֶׁר־בְּחֻקַּי֙ תֵּלֵ֔כוּ וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֥י תִּשְׁמְר֖וּ וַעֲשִׂיתֶֽם

and I will put My spirit into you. Thus I will cause you to follow My laws and faithfully to observe My rules. 

Ezekiel 36: 26-27

Lucy Dawidowicz

(1988)

"Wonder Woman 1984", Trailer (2020)

Vilnius

“The Old Jewish Cemetery of Vilna“

וְהָיְתָ֥ה לָכֶ֖ם לְחֻקַּ֣ת עוֹלָ֑ם בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַ֠שְּׁבִיעִי בֶּֽעָשׂ֨וֹר לַחֹ֜דֶשׁ תְּעַנּ֣וּ אֶת־נַפְשֹֽׁתֵיכֶ֗ם וְכָל־מְלָאכָה֙ לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֔וּ הָֽאֶזְרָ֔ח וְהַגֵּ֖ר הַגָּ֥ר בְּתוֹכְכֶֽם

And this shall be to you a law for all time: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall practice self-denial; and you shall do no manner of work, neither the citizen nor the alien who resides among you. 

Leviticus 16:29

Vida

Two mature Chrysaora fuscescens medusae

Páscoa

 

The Passover Seder of the Portuguese (Sephardic) Jews by Picart, in "The Monumental Ceremonies et 

Coutumes Religieuses de Tous les Peuples du Monde", Bernard Picart and Jean Frederic Bernard (1723)

Chabad

Rare Crown Heights Documentary on Chabad (1994)

Edith Eger

Edith Eva Eger about how to triumph in challenging times (2015)

"Marriage Story" de Noah Baumbach

Trailer

Raquel

Rachel begs God for children, Michelangelo, Rome

Israel

"International Law Issues in the Israeli/ Palestinian Conflict", Eugene Kontorovich (2016)