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).
The story of the erev rav is a sordid one in the history of biblical interpretation. Nahmanides famously faults them for the sin of the
There are two kinds of iconic figures. Those who do not live long enough. And those who do. There are those whose days are cut
by Shaul Magid Shaul Magid is the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Professor of Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Kogod Senior Senior Research Fellow at the
To contextualize violence does not mean to rationalize it. The violence in Israel/Palestine has a context: the occupation and creeping annexation.