Answering the final question of a questionnaire with paradoxical transcendence jihad survivor Salman Rushdie said the greatest of all his achievements was, amazingly, “to have continued”, like...

We are ritually unclean…why should we be excluded so as not to bring the offering -Numbers 9:7 I check my son’s homework on the internet machine every day....

The Romans turned the Colosseum into a colossal quarry, and were too stony hearted to admit that they were sorry for Jews about how their great...

Command the children of Israel to banish from the camp all those afflicted… -Numbers 5:2 No one understands a quarantine better than everyone alive today But it’s a sensitive...

Just as they camp, so shall they travel, each man in his place, by their divisions. -Numbers 2:17 I don’t like to use cliché in poems. I figure,...

Not taking yes as answer, Naomi was teaching Ruth how to be Jewish. Jews with strangers feel great solidarity, but aren’t enthusiastic when they choose to join a...

And when a man sells a residential house in a walled city, its redemption may take place 
until the completion of the year of its sale -Leviticus...

What it was like for those who were there. What did they feel? What were they thinking?

Bar Yohai lived within a cave for many years, By leaving it he caused his father-in-law great distress. “Alas that I should see you so,” was...

An ox or sheep you shall not slaughter it and its offspring in one day. -Leviticus 22:28 When I was a boy I used to go fishing...

  The first thing for which Jews give thanks to Godeach day is for providing them with clocks.These aren’t the ones most use. It may...

Therefore, I said to the children of Israel: None of you shall eat blood Leviticus 17:12 Rest assured, God, Adonai, Holy One Unseen Savior, Invisible to the point...

  That observation that Galapagos’s geriatric tortoises are able to make slow contortions caused by their negligible senescence, contradicts what all our elders have erroneously taught us...

If a man loses the hair on his head, he is bald. He is clean. Leviticus 13:40 No one complains when babies are bald but let a...

My name is Bezalel – son of Uri son of Hur, tribe of Judah – and the man Moses marched me before God to...

The silence of Aaron remained in the air Even after the last stone Covered the grave, after the strange fire Consumed the flesh. This silence lies in wait...

Before the four sounds played fortissimo violently comes a rest, that lasts just an eighth of a beat, to hear which is quite an impossible feat. You...

The last vestiges of the memory candles of Holocaust Day have barely melted to quiet and Memorial Day is upon us In Israel.

Do not drink wine that will lead to intoxication Leviticus 10:9 I didn’t drink, for no reason at all for more decades than I can remember. I think...

We the children of the second generation Awake in the morning, and we know that on our arm We inherited a tattoo, a number not to...

Sheep clouds and sandy light, white sails and motor boats This summer escape was built in 1907 for the working class of Berlin, who could not...

  "Sing Muse, of Achilles' wrath,"begins the Iliad, about the grievance of a Greek,whereas the Bible quoth,using an analogous poetical technique,that by the Reed Sea...

There once was a goat that was bought for two zuzei, and eaten soon after by one hungry kitty. A dog came along, and the cat was...

For I have taken the breast of the waving and the thigh of the elevation from the children of Israel Leviticus 7:34 It makes me wonder what...

What is not passed on now is lost, and it is not enough to borrow the past, for it must be embossed in order to have a...

This is a lament that never ends … Another mass killing Another person who transformed a weapon Into the angel of death, Into the plague of the death...

And you shall salt every one of your meal offering sacrifices with salt, and you shall not omit the salt… Leviticus 2:13 If there’s one thing I’ve...

“Haircut twenty dollars” read a sign in a barber’s window during the covid-19 epidemic, in Columbus Avenue, Manhattan. It added: “Overdue haircut, twenty-seven.” Overcharging for corrections...

And he made the menorah of pure gold; of hammered work he made the menorah Exodus 37:17 He is Bezalel, an artist. Because the foundation of any good society...

Though having an experience of the artist that’s immersive is now regarded de rigueur by lovers of Van Gogh, in such experiences I do not wish...