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Catharsis Found in Haggadah Artwork

Gaby Wenig April 1, 2004

While Israeli artist Avner Moriah was creating \”Haggadat Moriah\” (Moriah Haggadah), his wife, Andy, was undergoing chemotherapy treatments for leukemia.

\”I sat next to her when the chemicals were dripping in,\” said the 50-year-old artist, in Los Angeles this week for an exhibit opening of his work at the University of Judaism. \”In Israel everyone davens and says \’Tehillim\’ when someone is sick, but I came up with images for the haggadah. When I started, the images were really small but as she got healthier, they became more colorful and more lively. When I finished [and Andy recovered] I realized that I had painted my own journey from Egypt.\”

Behind Kitchen Door No. 1

Beverly Levitt March 25, 2004

Monty Hall spent 27 years making outrageous deals with anxious contestants on his TV game show, \”Let\’s Make a Deal.\” But the sweetest deal he ever made with his mishpachah was for a plate of pickled herring if they\’d join him for Passover seder.

100 Lessons

Rabbi Elazar Muskin December 11, 2003

While studying for rabbinic ordination at Yeshiva University in the late \’70s, I was at the main study hall dedication where the late Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik spoke, honoring the great philanthropist, Joseph Gruss, who underwrote the project.

In 2003, We Are STRONG

Michael Berenbaum December 4, 2003

Reichminister Joseph Goebbels delivers a speech to a crowd in Berlin urging Germans to boycott Jewish-owned businesses. He defends the boycott as a legitimate response to the anti-German \”atrocity propaganda\” being spread abroad by \”international Jewry.\” April 1, 1933.

Deep Fry Diversity

Matthew Goodman December 13, 2001

The historical foundations of Chanukah are well documented, in the Apocrypha\’s First and Second Books of the Maccabees and \”The Jewish War\” and \”Jewish Antiquities,\” written by the Jewish historian, Josephus, in the first century of the common era. As these sources relate, in the year 167 B.C.E. the king of Syria, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, decreed that only pagan gods could be worshiped in the temples, and the practice of Jewish rituals, including circumcision and Sabbath observance, was outlawed under penalty of death. Although many Jews, looking to assimilate into Hellenic society, acceded to Antiochus\’ decrees, an elderly priest named Mattathias and his five sons (the middle son would become known as Judah Maccabee or \”Judah the Hammer\”) bitterly opposed them and, after raising a rebel army, headed to the hills.

Serious Play

Rabbi Shawn Fields-Meyer December 13, 2001

We call it the Festival of Lights, but Chanukah starts in a very dark place.

Preserving History

Bram Eisenthal April 6, 2000

Some five miles outside of Amsterdam, there is a site where a miracle took place during the Holocaust.
Here, in this tiny town with quaint, pretty houses and narrow streets, the Nazis allowed Jewish history to survive. At a time when they were desecrating Jewish burial places all over Europe, they left this one alone.

Arthur Finkelstein’s Problem, and Ours

Jewish Journal April 22, 1999

You\’ve got to feel sorry for Arthur Finkelstein. The legendary Republican campaign consultant, slayer of liberals from North Carolina to New York, seems to have met his match this year, in Israel of all places. And all he wanted to do, he said in a recently published interview, was \”be part of Jewish history.\”

A Different Take

Jewish Journal July 3, 1997

Many modern forms of anti-Semitism, not least the Dreyfus Affair, can be seen as a reaction to the emancipation of the Jews in Western and Central Europe following the French Revolution, according to Dr. Michael Berenbaum.

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