Purim

 

 

"Finding God in the Book of Esther", Jon Levenson

 

Aleph

 

 

 

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks at Bnei Akiva Schools of Toronto (2016)

 

Sefarditas

 

 

 

Aquatint of the interior of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in London, after a watercolour by Isaac Mendes Belisario (1817)

Purim!

 

 

 

People dressed as Lego medical workers walk past shops in Jerusalem on February 24, 2021, 

a day before the Jewish holiday of Purim

Jacob

 

 

"Jacobs Dream", Rembrandt (1644)

Espinosa

 

 

"Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die", Steven Nadler

Vida

 

 

African bush elephant

 

Purim

 

 

"The Disdain of Mordechai", Jean-François de Troy

 

Marc Zvi Brettler

 

 

"On Being a Jewish Biblical Scholar"

 

Egipto

 

 

"A View from Ancient Egypt", Edward Bleiberg

 

Purim

 

"Esther", Jean-François Portaels (circa 1869)
 

Rabbi David Wolpe

 

"Moments of Connection"
 

Israel

 

 

"The Collapse of the Israeli Left”, Shany Mor  

 

Vida

 

 

Two Oriental or Indian ratsnakes

Yiddish

 

 

 

The folklorist Zusman Kisselhof recording Yiddish songs in a shtetl in Kremenets, Ukraine (1912)

 

Giacomo Meyerbeer

 

 

"Coronation March", from "Le Prophète" (1849)

 

Israel

 

 

An Israeli soldier prays at the Wailing Wall, Micha Bar-Am (1967)
 

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

 

 

"What Jews Believe About the Afterlife" 

 

Sinagoga Wolpa

 

  

The Wołpa Synagogue was a Synagogue in the town of Wołpa (alternative spellings: Wolpa, Volpe, Wolpe, Wolp, Woupa or Voupa) near Białystok, Poland, now in Western Belarus. It was reputed to be the "most beautiful" of the wooden synagogues of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a "masterwork" of wooden architecture. It was burnt by the Germans during the Second World War. 

 

Volodymyr-Volynsky (Ludmir)

 

 

An–ski (1912/1914)