image attribution: “P’kudei“, by Davi Cheng, Chinese ink and acrylic on parchment, 2013 by Gen Slosberg 夏夜 I wrote this shortly after returning from the US-Mexico
(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
by Leslie Simon Part 1 ( November 13, 2023) It started out as a secret, a big secret. A former student messaged me to see
Photo by Naaman Omar, Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. by Aron Wander In
(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).
On Friday, many Jews will observe Asarah b’Tevet, a minor fast day commemorating the beginning of the Babylonian siege on Jerusalem in the time of
by Aron Wander, for All That’s Left This Chanukah, All That’s Left, a Jerusalem-based, anti-Occupation collective, is publishing a series of eight essays — one
by Maya Rosen, for All That’s Left This Chanukah, All That’s Left, a Jerusalem-based, anti-Occupation collective, is publishing a series of eight essays — one
People sometimes say that Hannukah celebrates the fight against “assimilation,” or against “Hellenism.” When you read 1 Maccabees, you get a somewhat different picture. Certainly,
