Arthur Waskow (1933-2025) was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University and went on to receive a PhD in American
(for Simcha, because he asked) There has been much writing these past days about Israel’s choice to strike Iran, and Iran’s response. What I have
The further one gets from a moment in history, including a catastrophe, the more one begins to think about it comparatively. The Holocaust is a
On Israel Independence Day 1997 Rav Shagar addressed the students in his yeshiva Siah Yitzhak in Efrat on the West Bank. His sermon was published
In 1906, two years after Herzl’s death, a year after the first Russian revolution, and a few years since Aaron Shmuel Tamares (1869-1931) returned despondent
We begin where all mourning begins. We say their names: Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Almog Sarusi, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, and Ori Danino. These six
Photo caption: Dovid Din at the author’s wedding, 1983 * “I have transferred all my hedonism to the spiritual level.” –Dovid Din, NYC, April 10,
There is a stark and striking difference between the absence of Moshe in the Passover Haggadah and the centrality of Moshe on Shavout. In the
(in honor of Adar 7, Moshe Rabbenu’s yahrzeit) In the past few decades, Aaron Schmuel Tamares (1869-1931), a lonely, laconic, and largely unknown talmid hakham
(in memory of Aaron Shmuel Tamares and Yehuda Don Yehia) “Turn from Your blazing anger and renounce the plan to punish Your people” (Exodus 32:12).
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