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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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The Child Dreams

The Mother enters, carrying the dead Child in her arms; approaches the pile.The Mother:Hello, dead children.I brought my son here.He’s dead. He’ll lie with you.Dead Children:You brought…
Wall relief showing six men dressed in tunics, one prostrate and two kneeling, with two bearded soldiers behind them.
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Men Doing Obeisance to Sennacherib

The six men from Lachish in this section of Sennacherib's palace relief are dressed quite differently from the men shown in other sections. They are clad in the simplest of short-sleeved, unbelted…
Square-shaped comb with closely-positioned teeth on the right-hand side and wide handle with carved stripes.
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Bone Comb

This comb is from a Philistine site at Ekron, but combs looked the same throughout the region.

The Revelation at Mount Sinai

On the third new moon after the Israelites had gone forth from the land of Egypt, on that very day, they entered the wilderness of Sinai. [ . . . ] Israel encamped there in front of the…
Leather capsule with four indented sections.
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Prologue to Deuteronomy

See, I have imparted to you laws and rules, as the Lord my God has commanded me, for you to abide by in the land that you are about to enter and occupy. Observe them faithfully, for that…

The Parable of the Potter

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Go down to the house of a potter, and there I will impart My words to you.” So I went down to the house of a potter, and found him working at the…
Photograph of the Senate side of the US Capitol building in Washington, DC
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Judaism and Abortion

Balfour Brickner’s testimony was presented at hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments.