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To the Conductor: A song of David.
The heavens declare the glory of God,
the firmament tells His handiwork.
Day on day utters speech,
night on night announces knowledge.
There is no speech and…
I am not lyric any more
I will not play the harp
for your pleasure
I will not make a joyful
noise to you, neither
will I lament
for I know you drink
lamentation, too,
like wine
so I dully…
The northern Negev and the Negev mountain range
Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like watercourse in the Negev
They who sow in tears shall reap with songs of joy
—Psalms 126:4–5
More than half of the…
The rule of the aforementioned fifth and sixth items, which concern going to bed and rising. It is stated and summarized from what has been said in the past, that sleep being so harmful…
The top register of this plaque from Hazor depicts a crouching winged sphinx wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. The lower register shows two stylized three-tiered palmettes. The…
Ben-Dov was the founder of the photography department in the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. This photograph of an art student posing as the biblical Ruth is faithful to the Bezalel mission to…
In this detail from the left side of a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud, two ibexes are eating the flora of a schematic tree, all set above a striding lion. These common motifs are typically…
Kibbutz Netzer Sereni was established by Holocaust survivors from the Buchenwald concentration camp. In fact, its original name was Kibbutz Buchenwald. It is now named for Enzo Sereni, an Italian…
The street photographer Garry Winogrand said he was motivated by wanting “to see what the world looks like in photographs.” He didn’t regard his photos as identical with the reality of the scenes he…
Leon Levinstein, widely admired for his street photography, held himself at a distance from the art world and never produced a book of his work. He kept his day job as a graphic designer and went out…
