How can we make sense after two years of war?

The best sentence I've read during the past week.

Graves of Tzaddikim hold many things—hopes, prayers, and sometimes even the deceased's body.

Whydowebegin the seder by inviting “whoever is hungry” to come and eat? Aren’t the guests already at the table? And why do we do it in Aramaic? It has something to do with Babylonian magic bowls . . .

The Lubavitcher Rebbe had great artistic taste—and that included his choice of menorah.

ברדיו עם קלצ’קין · Episode

David Weiss Halivni once rescued a scrap from a page of the Shulchan Arukh from the sandwich paper of a Nazi guard. His whole life turned out to be about rescuing texts.

“Well,” he said, “this is a good little golus you’ve got here.”

Author(s): Balberg, Mira | Abstract: Here on Earth tells the story of the kibbutz, a daring social experiment in collectivized living, from its inception in the beginning of the twentieth century to t...

An early feminist novel about a North African Jewish damsel in (Jewish) distress.

Sotheby’s is pleased to announce the 18 December sale of Important Judaica. Highlights include an exceptional group of manuscripts from the celebrated Montefiore and Sassoon collections. Among these a...

If Jews were included in early 20th-century discussions of political communities, it was generally concerning their right to preserve their language and culture, along with other minorities, at a time when empires were being dismantled.

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