(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.