Posts Tagged: Jewish Texts
Ohio Attorney General Seeks to Halt Sale of Rare Jewish Book Collection
Cincinnati, Ohio is home to a robust Reform Jewish community. In the heart of downtown sits a cathedral-like synagogue built in 1866 known as Plum...
Israeli College Develops Algorithm to Identify Hebrew Quotations
i24 News - An innovative algorithm for identifying quotations and references in Jewish historical texts is receiving a grant from Israel's Science and Technology Ministry. Dr. Jonathan Schler,...
Real Refugees
Palestinian nationalism is deeply embedded in, and derived from, Jewish history in the Land of Israel. Without Zionism as their primary source of inspiration Palestinians...
18th Century Haggadah Found in British Garage (VIDEO)
A handwritten Haggadah from 1726 has been discovered in Great Britain, garnering the interest of Jewish communities from across the globe, reports the BBC. The Haggadah,...
Sukkot: The Environmental Perspective
The weather is changing and in North America the leaves are falling, yet around this time of year Jews persist in going outside just when...
The Politics of Freedom
Having set out the broad principles of the covenant, Moses now turns to the details, which extend over many chapters and several parshiyot. ...
Why is the Jewish People So Small
Near the end of Va'etchanan, so inconspicuously that we can sometimes miss it, is a statement with such far reaching implications that it...
Profits and Prophets
There are few more blazing passages in the whole of religious literature than the first chapter of the book of Isaiah, the great "vision," chazon,...
Israel: Not Reckoned Among the Nations
The year is 1933. Two Jews are sitting in a Viennese coffee house, reading the news. One is reading the local Jewish paper, the other...
