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Sample Sources

The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
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Founding Program

The purpose of Agudat Israel is the solution of the respective tasks facing the Jewish collectivity, in the spirit of the Torah. In accordance with this purpose, it sets itself the following goals: (1…

The Columbus Platform

In view of the changes that have taken place in the modern world and the consequent need of stating anew the teachings of Reform Judaism, the Central Conference of American Rabbis makes the following…

Lamentations

In a dingy kitchen Facing a Ghetto backyard An old woman is chanting Jeremiah’s Lamentations, Quaveringly, Out of a Hebrew Bible. The gaslight flares and falls . . . This night, Two thousand…

A Bintel Brief

Dear Editor,I am a Russian revolutionist and a freethinker. Here in America I became acquainted with a girl who is also a freethinker. We decided to marry, but the problem is that she has Orthodox…

Birds Are Drowsing

Birds are drowsing on the branches. Sleep, my darling child. At your cradle, in the field, A stranger sits and sings. Once you had another cradle Woven out of joy. And your mother, oh your mother W…

Hut ha-meshulash (Threefold Cord)

The Hasid praises the Almighty on the right hand, and the unbeliever tosses away and truncates the principles of faith on the left, while the Torah scholar, standing in the center, maintains silence…

Silliness and Sanctimony

Yetkhen:And how crude he was with me! He wants to arrange with Papa to marry me! How do you like that? I’d like to meet the man who’ll force me to marry someone! No! No father can do that—I have…
Printed page with French text in center surrounded by seated figures on pedestals, cherubs, and ribboned decorations.
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La Reine de Chypre

La reine de Chypre (The Queen of Cyprus) is a grand opera in five acts, first performed in Paris in 1841. It is regarded as one of the greatest works of the composer Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie…