Galilee Diary: Truth and Reconciliation
[Jeremiah dictated his prophecy to Baruch the scribe, who brought the scroll to the royal court]. ...And Yehudi [brought it and] read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes that stood beside the king.
Galilee Diary: Sacred Music
Praise Him with the blast of the horn; praise Him with the psaltery and harp. Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; praise Him with stringed instruments and the pipe. Praise Him with the loud-sounding cymbals; praise Him with the clanging cymbals.
Galilee Diary: Pioneers
[The ultra-Orthodox] look like our grandfathers. How can you slap your grandfather into jail, even if he throws stones at you? -David Ben Gurion
Galilee Diary: Packaging History
Now Yodfat is almost all of it built upon a precipice, having on all the other sides of it every way valleys immensely deep and steep, insomuch that those who would look down would have their sight fail them before it reached to the bottom.
Public Affirmation
Anyone who really, really knows me was not surprised to receive the announcement of my conversion to Judaism. When I very seriously told my two best friends from college about my decision last fall, they started to laugh.
The Free World
by Peter Shapiro
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Rosh HaShanah Food
Growing up on Long Island my family belonged to a 350-family congregation. Each year I happily anticipated the High Holiday services and the sense of belonging I felt when I entered the sanctuary.
The Eichmann Trial
Deborah Lipstad transports her readers back in time to Jerusalem sixteen years after May 8, 1945 V-E Day and the end of the Shoah, and thirteen years after May 14, 1948 when Israel became an independent state.
The Modern Day Value of Tishah B'Av
During the summer months the Torah's calendar contains no holidays save the weekly blessing of Shabbat. However, post biblical historical realities bring us a most significant commemoration on Tishah B'Av, the Ninth of Av.
Book Discussion: Beginnings
by Peter Shapiro
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