Showing Results 21 - 30 of 57
Restricted
Text
Miriam, Aristobolus and Dina.
Miriam:Mother!
Enter Alexandra, Miriam’s mother.
Alex:Your shouting will wake the dead. A little refinement, Miriam, you’re no longer a little girl.
Miriam:It…
Contributor:
Edna Mazya
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2000
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The Torah views the defection of one single Jewish soul from Judaism as the ultimate tragedy, for is not “one solitary Jewish life an entire world”? And an intermarriage is nothing…
Contributor:
Nisson Wolpin
Places:
Queens, United States of America
Date:
1984
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Today, there again exists a serious threat that the differences within the world-wide Jewish community may end in schism.
The foremost reason for the gravity of the situation is the explosion in Jews…
Contributor:
Irving Greenberg
Places:
Waltham, United States of America
Date:
1986
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann
Places:
Düsseldorf, German Empire
(Düsseldorf, Germany)
Date:
1872
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Tina Blau
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1875–1876
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Yesterday, I dumped on my son the following story:
That my father was a cyclops and, of course, had one eye,
That my fifteen brothers wanted to devour me,
So, I barely got myself out of their…
Contributor:
Jacob Glatstein
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1929
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Formations of soldiers faced each other across the floor, taking cover in domino houses and bunkers of colored blocks. Yurik and Kazik lay by their soldiers. [ . . . ]
But Kazik had stopped playing…
Contributor:
Uri Orlev
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1958
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The Israelites spent the rest of the day celebrating this festival of thanksgiving in their homes as a second Purim, with tears of sadness and joy, and by the time the sun set, the…
Contributor:
Salomon Formstecher
Places:
Offenbach, Kingdom of Westphalia
(Offenbach, Germany)
Date:
1859
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Sensitive Content
When I was in Castile in the city of Zamora, tranquil and secure in my abode, I set my mind to inquire and explore matters of Torah and began to compose a book yielding lovely…
Contributor:
Abraham Saba
Places:
Ksar el-Kebir, Kingdom of Morocco
(Ksar El Kebir, Morocco)
Date:
ca. 1500
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Sensitive Content
Without warning, on the 20th of April, 1749, at the end of the Passover Festival, Sunday, at about 17 hours [noon], I was kidnapped and taken away by force thanks to a false denunciation made against…
Contributor:
Anna del Monte
Places:
Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
Date:
1749