Tisha b’Av

How many Jews had been dragged to the baptismal font in Tortosa, and how many had just given up the struggle and gone of their own accord?

Frank Talmage
July 27 2023 12:01AM

Berl Katznelson’s defense of the Jewish calendar.

Aug. 10 2022 12:01AM

How many Jews had been dragged to this baptismal font and how many had just given up the struggle and gone of their own accord?

Frank Talmage
Aug. 5 2022 12:01AM

“We won! Am Yisrael ḥai!”

Shulamith Berger
Aug. 5 2022 12:01AM

The theological and literary history of one of Europe’s first great outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence.

Ephraim Kanarfogel
Aug. 2 2022 12:01AM

Anglo-Saxon males do not know how to cry—with the result that, on the odd occasion that they do, they may not know how to stop.

Frank Talmage
July 16 2021 12:01AM

Sumerian poems, the midrash, and the Divine virtuoso of grieving.

Edward Greenstein
July 16 2021 12:01AM

On the Ninth of Av, Oholah and Oholibah speak.

Yosef Lindell
July 15 2021 12:01AM

The scene of centuries of Jewish hopes, achievement, and catastrophe.

Frank Talmage
July 30 2020 12:01AM

Judah Halevi’s poetic theodicy.

Yosef Lindell
July 29 2020 12:01AM