The Jewish Connection To The Brooklyn Bridge
The remarkable Unger, a true mathematical Renaissance man, was a visionary in the field of mathematics education who also wrote numerous texts, many of which became pedagogical standards used by...
View ArticleYitzhak Navon’s Scroll Of The Elders In The Kotel Hama’aravi
What follows are several excerpts, translated into English, to give readers a flavor of the late president’s beautiful prose:
View ArticleA Soldier’s Prayer
“It is a gruesome thing to ask every married soldier to visualize his complete destruction… It would be terribly destructive to morale.”
View ArticleBella Chagall’s Chanukah
She needs to rescue her fleshless memories, lest they flicker out and die.
View ArticleThe 2154th Chanukah (or Chanukah #2154)
Our own contemporary Chanukah battle has become one of saving Chanukah from American culture.
View ArticleShining Lights
In August of 1945, US Army Chaplain Major Aaron Paperman was stationed in Rome, Italy, and sent a telegram to the Agudath Israel Youth Council in New York requesting aid for Jews that had been...
View ArticleGirona, A Mother City In Israel
During the Middle Ages Girona was one of Europe's most important centers of Kabbalah.
View ArticleOne Rabbi, Quarter-Million-Dollar Goal, And 18 Straight Hours Of Shiurim To...
The 18-hour event, which ran from midnight on December 23 to 6 p.m. on December 24, coincided with a project run by Yavneh’s middle school that had students memorizing the answers to 18,000 questions...
View ArticleNefesh 2015: An Exceptional And Informative Weekend
However, many people who visit a therapist and feel they weren’t helped conclude that “therapy doesn’t work.” This is unfortunate because those people don’t get the help they could receive.
View ArticleThe Pied Piper Of Auschwitz
Mrs. R. hurls the violin at the couch, screeching, “It’s horrible! I sound so horrible!” and again runs out of the room, sobbing.
View ArticleSurvival Of A Legacy
The Ritchie Boys were approximately 9,000 US servicemen who received their training at the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie, Maryland.
View ArticleLeonard Bernstein And ‘East Side Story’
While he wrote only one piece of music directly for liturgical use, Hashkeveinu, which premiered at the Park Avenue Synagogue on May 11, 1945, Bernstein often named his works after Jewish themes and...
View ArticleMonet, Dreyfus, And The End Of Impressionism
When Dreyfus was finally cleared and Zola returned to France, Monet sank into a deep depression over the sordid and disgraceful affair.
View ArticleThomas Jefferson: Jewish Student Of Talmud?
While advocating Jewish liberty, however, Jefferson simultaneously held Judaism itself in low regard.
View ArticleA Mother City In Israel – Krakow
In fact, you can barely turn around in Krakow’s Jewish quarter without bumping into a legend of some sort.
View ArticleA Call To Arms
We must show them that being a true Jew is being true to one's people as well as to oneself.
View ArticleSalonika: A Mother City in Israel
The year 1648 was supposed to have been a momentous one for the people of Israel.
View ArticleWoody Guthrie: Jewish Family, Jewish Music
Enchanted by his immigrant mother-in-law’s rituals, stories, and incredible blintzes, Guthrie learned everything he could about the Jewish people...
View ArticleNaomi Shemer’s Passover
During the nineteen years of Israeli statehood preceding the Six-Day War, popular songs were rarely written about yearning for Jerusalem until “Yerushalayim shel Zahav” broke the mold in 1967, when...
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