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Monday, April 22nd 2024
Mijal Bitton Sapir Journal, October 2023 – February 2024 “This is what Jewish peoplehood feels like. The pain is telling us that the organism is working, that we are still a “we.” This pain is the essence of being — or becoming — a Jew.” The words of the Torah can reflect our profound sorrow in this moment. Each […]
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Tuesday, April 4th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
INCREASING TIES It Came to Pass at Midnight—From the Amidah to the Passover Haggadah: Prof. Rabbi Laura Lieber, The Torah.com, Sept. 26, 2020 –– The Passover Haggadah concludes with a series of songs, the first of which is וַיְהִי בַּחֲצִי הַלַּיְלָה, Vayhi BeChatzi HaLayla, “It Came to Pass at Midnight” (Exod 12:29). The song, however, was not […]
Ruth R. Wisse WSJ, Mar. 30, 2023 “Why did “they” so often seek to destroy us? Why some nations and not others? Why the Germans? And why, more exigently by the late 1940s and ’50s, did Arab and Muslim leaders who already ruled over myriad countries adamantly refuse to coexist with the tiniest Jewish state? […]
Stuart Halpern Tablet, Mar. 31, 2023 ‘A harbinger of hope, a rebuker of the unrighteous, a hearer of stillness amid fractured times, the Seder night’s specter continues to visit, stirring Americans to perceive in his cup their own redemptive possibilities.’ Everyone’s favorite Passover guest is a ghost. In one of the Seder’s most mystical […]
Shalom Carm First Things, April 2023 “… for Jews, the normative memory of slavery is inseparable from the threat of extermination.” Jews throughout the world celebrate the first nights of Passover, which commemorate God’s deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt 3,500 years ago. The focus is the Seder, a meal at which a […]
EDWARD ROTHSTEIN Sapir Journal, Vol. 7, Autumn 2022 In our era of cancellations and topplings, censorious declarations and virtue signaling, recantations and exorcisms, it’s almost possible to feel nostalgic for the days when PoMo reigned supreme. PoMo? Yes, or more formally, postmodernism — a set of suppositions about the world that once inspired the academic priesthood and […]
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