This glimpse into an eighteenth-century German Jewish marriage ceremony offers an opportunity to consider how gender roles have changed for this vital ritual.
When Jacob ben Abraham Tsaddik created the first printed map of the Holy Land in Hebrew, he included this portrait of himself. The Hebrew under the image of the sun intertwined with a Star of David…
The kapporet is a short curtain, a valance, hung over the curtain of the Torah ark, and first began to appear in Eastern Europe in the late seventeenth century. The griffins and crowns that appear on…
This glimpse into an eighteenth-century German Jewish marriage ceremony offers an opportunity to consider how gender roles have changed for this vital ritual.
When Jacob ben Abraham Tsaddik created the first printed map of the Holy Land in Hebrew, he included this portrait of himself. The Hebrew under the image of the sun intertwined with a Star of David…
The kapporet is a short curtain, a valance, hung over the curtain of the Torah ark, and first began to appear in Eastern Europe in the late seventeenth century. The griffins and crowns that appear on…