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Friday, December 9th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Shabbat reading: A 12th Century Derasha on Parashat Vayishlach: Reconstructing the Speaker’s Notes: Dr. Moshe Lavvee, Dr. Oded Rosenblum and Dr. Shana Strauch-Schick, The Torah.com, Dec. 14, 2016 — Almost a century ago, a most unusual fragment was discovered at the Cairo Geniza. Rather cryptically, it only consists of a list of 4-8 biblical verses […]
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Ariel Sophia Bardi New Lines Magazine, Nov. 11, 2022 “Altneuland” was one of a spate of turn-of-the-century texts that sought to answer what Jewish autonomy would look and feel like.” Exactly a century ago, a cantankerous German aristocrat and a lovelorn Jewish lawyer from Vienna stepped off a private yacht onto the […]
Gil Troy Jewish Journal, Aug. 18, 2022 “Sometimes, he is more playwright than architect, as when he plots out the Jews’ redemption in three acts from “Introduction” to “Elevation” to “Emigration.”” Editor’s note: Excerpted from the new three-volume set, “Theodor Herzl: Zionist Writings,” the inaugural publication of The Library of the Jewish […]
Bonnie K. Goodman Times of Israel, Aug. 30, 2022 “Bettelheim described Herzl as the Congress’ president as “a miracle . . . as if King Solomon had arisen from his grave, because he could no longer bear the suffering of his people and its humiliation.’” On this day in history… August 29–31, 1897, Theodor Herzl convenes […]
Ariel Bulshtein Times of Israel, Aug. 28, 2022 “… my journey follows the psychological and personal motives of the heroes, of which they themselves are sometimes unaware. There’s a person behind every narrative, and I wanted to show that.” The city of Basel in Switzerland is hosting a unique event this week. Led by […]
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