Analysis
Friday, December 16th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Joanne Kaufman WSJ, Dec. 7, 2022 ““I’ll Have What She’s Having” bears no resemblance whatsoever to the over-stuffed sandwiches that are the deli’s stock in trade. The exhibit is lean and compact, free of kitsch and light on schmaltzy nostalgia.” “Tell me what you eat,” the 18th-century French lawyer and gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin famously said, […]
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Stav Ziv Forward, Dec. 15, 2022 “… whether they’re following their own personal observance or taking those of their audience into account, the groups have religious reasons to limit their membership. Also business reasons.” Plenty has changed about holiday a cappella videos since “Candlelight” exploded on YouTube over a decade ago like a 21st-century Hanukkah […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, October 14th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
What Are We Celebrating on Simchas Torah?: Rabbi Michael Taubes, Sukkot-to-Go, 5783 — The joyous holiday of Sukkos, and indeed the entire Yomim Noraim season, culminates with our celebrating the completion of our yearly Kerias HaTorah cycle with the reading of Parshas VeZos HaBerachah, the last parshah in the Chumash. ANICENT BOOK: MODERN QUESTIONS WATCH: […]
Sholom Aleichem Tablet, Oct. 9, 2020 “I took stock of all the other flags, then looked back at my own. What a contrast. Theirs weren’t even fit to hold a candle to mine. My flag was the most successful of all, for who had as much wax as me?” When I was a little […]
Philologos Mosaic Magazine, Sept. 20, 2018 “But was this an actual Simḥat Torah service? I have my doubts.” “One of the most famous foundational stories in the narrative of Anglo-Jewry,” it was called by Tablet several years ago. The online Jewish magazine was referring to an entry in the diary of the British statesman Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), […]
Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin The Torah.com, Oct. 9, 2022 “Is this modern-sounding idea—that life without progress is meaningless—really Kohelet’s worldview?” In 1855, Adolph Jellinek (1821–1893) published a commentary on Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) from a late 13th century manuscript in Codex hebr. 32 (henceforth, “Hamburg 32”). The copyist opens the commentary with the words פי’ של ר’ שמואל […]
Outside Source
Thursday, October 13th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Gershon Winkler Isranet.org, Oct. 14, 2022 “But my father, he was unconcerned that he and his sukkah could conceivably – at any moment – break loose and crash down into the alleyway below. After all, he had seven special angels surrounding him.” My memory isn’t as great as it used to be, and quite […]
Friday, October 7th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
SHABBAT READING The Multiple Metaphors for God in Shirat Haazinu: Prof. Rabbi Andrea M Weiss, TheTorah.com, Sept. 23, 2014 —Parashat Haazinu tells of a relationship gone awry. According to the poem at the heart of Deuteronomy 32 (referred to as “the Song of Moses” or, after its first word, “Shirat Haazinu”), God established a special relationship […]
Atar Hadari Mosaic Magazine, Sept. 16, 2013 “The festivals of the Jewish year form a chain. Rosh Hashanah is a wake-up call: ten days later, on Yom Kippur, you will be required to account for yourself. And at the end of the long Yom Kippur fast, you are required not to rush off and stuff […]
Dr. Dafna Langgut The Torah.com, Sept. 23, 2021 “The earliest archaeological evidence for the cultivation of the tree outside Persia is in a garden in Ramat Rahel—nowadays part of west Jerusalem but in that period a Persian administrative center near Jerusalem—in a stratum dated to the 5th/4th century B.C.E.” The Torah mentions four plant species in connection […]
Dovid Bashevkin Tablet, Sept. 1, 2021 “Instead of staring at the rubble of my Jewish ideals, promises, and commitments with a crestfallen sorrow exhausted to build again from scratch, a sukkah creates a world meant to be rebuilt, reassembled, and reimagined.” Most Jewish holidays are easy to explain to your non-Jewish colleagues. Many, if […]
Jeremy Rosen Algemeiner, Sept. 23, 2021 “ Our rituals … interlink social morality and responsibility with daily rituals, so that we are constantly reminded of our values and goals.” The ancient festival of Sukkot has numerous elements to it. First is the Sukkah. We value our homes and the security of our little […]
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