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Wednesday, October 16th 2024
Melanie Phillips JNS, Oct. 10, 2024 “These Jews have a choice. They can recognize the unique value of the inherited, specific precepts of Judaism that have bound the Jewish people together over the centuries and enabled it to survive every culture that has tried to annihilate it. Or else they can stick with a Western culture […]
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Friday, September 22nd 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
SHABBAT READING Crimson to White: Yom Kippur’s Miraculous Thread: Dr. Rabbi Joshua Kulp, The Torah.com, Sept. 21, 2023 — Leviticus (ch. 16) describes a Yom Kippur ritual, known as the scapegoat, in which a goat is chosen by lottery to bear Israel’s iniquities, and is then sent into the wilderness as a way of […]
Monday, October 24th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978 “Despite a historical record that shows sustained involvement of American Jewish women with early Zionism and Palestine, this topic has received scant scholarly attention.” – from ‘Women and the Zionist Enterprise’ by Shulamit Reinharz and Mark A. Raider. SHABBAT READING A Kabbalist in Montreal: The Life and Times […]
Friday, October 21st 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Jack Mayer National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 2020, Volume 41, Number 3 “I’m a child of Holocaust survivors. How could I not know Irena Sendler’s story?” Between 1942 and 1943, Sendler and her network of 10 compatriots rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto. Disguised as an infection-control nurse, Sendler knocked on […]
Shai Ben-Ari The Librarians, Mar. 11, 2019 “They targeted symbols of Soviet power and prestige, and few symbols were as prestigious as the famous Bolshoi Ballet which toured the world’s great cities, with the goal of promoting Russian and Soviet art and culture.” As the lights were dimmed in the main hall of Montreal’s […]
Yisroel Medad Fathom Journal, October 2021 “We are talking about one of the main Jewish collective community moments of the late 20th century.” From 1962, when Matzot for Russia’s Jews for the upcoming Passover holiday were dumped on the pavement in front of the Soviet Mission in Manhattan to highlight the cruel restrictions facing their brethren, to the rally of […]
Natalie Livingstone WSJ, Oct. 13, 2022 “Under the women’s tutelage, he [Chaim Weizmann] learned the intricacies of London’s political class: who would be susceptible to his ideas and who would be resistant, which kind of story was suitable for the dinner table and which for the drawing room. Weizmann learned to tone down his […]
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