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Opposite the windowsill is a shuttered curtain and a wasteland of chimneys. The street is being drained of life. A double-decker bus with gleaming windows of light passes by the corner. A woman pushes…
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Amalia Kahana-Carmon
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1966
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This is a night of vigil for me,
in the shudder of my soul
I shall conceal
the secret of my youth.
I shall stand on guard:
No sleep nor slumber!
And in just one moment
the veil was taken away.
A…
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Bat-Hamah
Date:
1954
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I was in the midst of a large group of people who were there, close to a hundred people, among them scholars and heads of communities. And two men, who knew adjurations and many things, approached the…
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Elijah Falkon
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1571
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Belonging to Hamiohel daughter of Menahem.
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
7th Century BCE
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“You be the man. You lead!”
So his mother commanded him, taking his reluctant hands and putting them firmly around her middle. “Go on, lead!” She smiled at him. He could feel her breath on his face…
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David Grossman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1991
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I too wish to marry a desperate housewife
Blur my way into her house with the evening light
The aromas of salad and an omelet cooking
To live in the shade of her becoming
To have her raise me like…
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Agi Mishol
Places:
Gedera, Israel
Date:
1991
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A recent discussion of our question concludes as follows:
In conclusion, women are not permitted under any circumstances to wear tefillin. In view of the fact that the Rema, the…
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David Golinkin
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1986
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What is the testimony that proves my guilt? The punishment itself. Although Naomi says that she must have been guilty, it’s as if she doesn’t really know what she is guilty of. It’s only when things…
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Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
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New York City, United States of America
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1992
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There are numerous terra-cotta plaque figurines of females, some naked and others clothed, holding disks, mostly from northern Israel and Transjordan. Many come from border towns and towns whose…
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Hazor, Land of Israel
(Tel Hazor, Israel)
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Iron Age II, 9th–8th Century BCE