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Friday, June 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Maoz Kahana Tablet, May 31, 2023 “According to the Hatam Sofer, therefore, the verses in Leviticus that allude to the salamander cannot indicate a creature that is not part of the natural order, even if all the details of its existence are wondrous and magical.” In 1651 the rabbi-politician-philosopher and ex-converso Menashe ben Israel […]
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Friday, December 16th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
SHABBAT READING: Why Does the Torah Describe Babies Born Hands First?’: Dr. Eran Viezel, The Torah.com, Nov. 28, 2018 The story of Judah and Tamar in Genesis 38 ends with Tamar giving birth to twins:[1] בראשית לח:כז וַיְהִי בְּעֵת לִדְתָּהּ וְהִנֵּה תְאוֹמִים בְּבִטְנָהּ. לח:כח וַיְהִי בְלִדְתָּהּ וַיִּתֶּן יָד וַתִּקַּח הַמְיַלֶּדֶת וַתִּקְשֹׁר עַל יָדוֹ שָׁנִי לֵאמֹר זֶה יָצָא רִאשֹׁנָה. לח:כט וַיְהִי כְּמֵשִׁיב יָדוֹ וְהִנֵּה […]
Saul Austerlitz PBS, Dec. 13, 2022 “Bellow was a cultural conservative at heart, decrying what he saw as the excesses of a society spiraling out of control, but his critique is laced with deep sympathy for the rejects and failures of American life.” It is only too easy to see Saul Bellow as one […]
Matti Friedman Tablet, May 4, 2022 “So “Lover Lover Lover” is a war song. It’s not clear what “lover” he’s referring to in the chorus, which simply intones that word seven times and implores, “come back to me.” But if we understand the song as a kind of prayer, maybe the word appears […]
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, […]
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 […]
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