Aryeh Ben-Gurion was an educator. Born in Russia, he came with his family to Palestine in 1924. His grandfather, Avigdor Green, was among the founders of ḥibat Tsiyon, and his uncle, David Ben-Gurion, was Israel’s first prime minister. In the 1930s, as part of the United Kibbutz Movement, Aryeh Ben-Gurion founded the Kibbutz Institute for Holidays and Jewish Culture, to celebrate Jewish festivals in a secular environment. He earned the Avi-Chai Prize for creating a Jewish cultural infrastructure in the kibbutz community and throughout Israel.
In the living quarters of the [North] African [Jews] in the transit camps, here’s what you’ll find: you’ll find filth, card games, and money, drunkenness, and whoring. Many of them are afflicted with…
This Haggadah, decorated in the Ashkenazic tradition, was copied in northern Italy. As is traditional for Ashkenazic Haggadahs, illustrations appear in the margins and frame the text. At the top left…
The days of my life pass by, dissolve like mist.
I don’t know the what and when; I don’t know the who.
Baal and Astarte have grown alien to me.
My kingdom and my foes grow alien, too.
I don’t…