Showing Results 1 - 10 of 28
Restricted
Text
Assimilation in our day has spoiled and distorted the essence of our festivals. It has turned Rosh Hashanah into a day of festivity filled with the sound of music and song. However, the first day of…
Contributor:
Yehiel Yaakov Weinberg
Places:
Date:
1937
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
“Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. The religious sense prays as the intellectual organ thinks.” Prayer, to carry this saying of Novalis a step further, is a significant…
Contributor:
Nahum N. Glatzer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1947
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Beware! This man, Wessely, is an impious man. Beware, do not draw near to him! God, the Lord of Hosts, knows that for the sake of the glory of your Holy Torah I have come this day to hew down he who…
Contributor:
David Tevele
Places:
(Leszno, Poland)
Date:
1782
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Most simply described, Bibliodrama is a form of role-playing in which the roles played are taken from biblical texts. The roles may be those of characters who appear in the Bible…
Contributor:
Peter A. Pitzele
Places:
Katonah, United States of America
Date:
1997
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Cornell Capa
Places:
Brooklyn, United States of America
Date:
1955
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
That self-hatred is present among Jews is a fact that the non-Jew would hardly believe, but which is well known among the Jews themselves. It is a phenomenon which has been observed ever since the…
Contributor:
Kurt Lewin
Places:
Iowa City, United States of America
Date:
1941
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Open Letter to His Most Worthy,
Supreme Consistorial Counselor and
Provost Teller at Berlin, from some
Householders of the Jewish Religion
But when the more perfect comes, the
imperfect will pass…
Contributor:
David Friedländer
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1799
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
There is a matter well known and widely publicized among all those who have come through the gates of our city, Constantinople [Istanbul], may God preserve it. . . . [I]t occurred about two years…
Contributor:
Isaac Akrish
Places:
Date:
1858
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The range of my movement between “here” and “there” was supported by imagination and sustained by difference. In going to a women’s seminary, I remained…
Contributor:
Tamar El-Or
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1998
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The prophet of consolation prophesied (Isaiah 60: 4–5): “Lift up your eyes and look about; they have all gathered and come to you. Your sons shall be brought from afar, your daughters like babes on…
Contributor:
Abraham Isaac Kook
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1925