Remembrances Of Slavery How Two Cultures Commemorate A Vital Part Of Their History
In this essay, Steve Lipman compares how the Black American community and how the Jewish American community commemorate their slavery narratives.
Jeremiah Lockwood’s New Cantorial Blues Album, Kol Nidre, is a Yom Kippur Dream
Hillel Broder reviews the latest release from Jeremiah Lockwood.
A Day of Remembrance: From Torah Reading to Shofar Blast
Michael Kurin discusses the connections between the Akeidah and the Rosh Hashanah services.
You light candles
In his latest poem, Bruce Black meditates on the Chanukah miracle and the miracles of everyday life
The Species for Change
Chana Chava Ford explains what Sukkot might teach us about real religious change.
The Date of the Omer Sacrifice According to Rabbi Yehuda Halevi – an example...
A novel medieval interpretation by R. Yehudah ha-Levi about the counting of the omer may have a surprising basis in rabbinic countering of heresy.
Before Erev Yom Kippur
In this poem, Mel Waldman considers life and its tribulations over coffee.
The Meeting
A new poem and introductory essay by Ben Corvo, in memory of his father.
Why Celebrate the Torah at The Wheat Harvest?
The biblical account of the holiday we refer to as Shavuot bears no relationship at all to the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. The emergence of the association between this harvest festival and the Sinai covenant has therefore occupied both traditional and academic thinkers for centuries. Tzvika Aviv argues for a previously unexplored approach to the question, one which bridges the mystical insights of the Zohar with current scientific knowledge regarding wheat genetics.
Kohelet: Seeking to Uncover and Bury
Shlomo Zuckier seeks and uncovers rabbinic-Biblical intertextuality.
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