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The creator of the popular ritual of placing an orange on the Seder plate describes exactly how this innovation arose, its intended significance, and the problematic erasure of its origins.
Contributor:
Susannah Heschel
Places:
Hanover, United States of America
Date:
2001
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In a long poem written in 1960, when I was thirty-one years old, I described myself as “Split at the root, neither Gentile nor Jew, / Yankee nor Rebel.” I was still trying to have it both ways: to be…
Contributor:
Adrienne Rich
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1982
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Love is a net that nature spreads out in order to multiply humankind. (Love also exists among animals.) Only complete love is true love. True love does not have any higher or lower…
Contributor:
Simḥa Ben-Tsiyon
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1918