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.
On Filling Shoes
I had a very unusual fifteenth birthday. During my birthday week, the end of April, I was traveling with 5,000 high school students from around the world, visiting concentration camps in Poland. I…
In Praise of Normality
The attempt I have made to realign these concepts does not, of course, do away with the conflicts, tensions, cultural struggles, and constant inputs and reequilibrations of problems of identity. All…
The Right Question Is Theological
The situation of the Jewish woman might well be compared to the situation of the Jew in non-Jewish culture. The Gentile projection of the Jew as Other—the stranger, the demon, the human not-quite…
Address at Pope John Paul II’s Historic Visit, Synagogue of Rome, April 13, 1986
Your Holiness,
As the Chief Rabbi of this community, whose history goes back thousands of years, I wish to express to you my intense satisfaction at the gesture you have wished to carry out today…
In No Uncertain Terms: A South African Memoir
During my first few years as the lone Prog M. P., I found myself confronted by a series of vicious laws designed to undermine civil rights and to intensify discrimination…
Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History
In 1913 a Jewish girls’ school in Vilna called Yehudiyah, which provided supplementary education for girls aged seven to eighteen, published a publicity pamphlet in Yiddish…
Assyria and Its Future Fall
Ha!
Assyria, rod of My anger,
In whose hand, as a staff, is My fury!
I send him against an ungodly nation,
I charge him against a people that provokes Me,
To take its spoil and to seize its booty
A…
True and False Piety
Cry with full throat, without restraint;
Raise your voice like a ram’s horn!
Declare to My people their transgression,
To the House of Jacob their sin.
To be sure, they seek Me daily,
Eager to…
Jeremiah’s Arrest and His Lament over His Prophetic Role
Pashhur son of Immer, the priest who was chief officer of the House of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesy these things. Pashhur thereupon had Jeremiah flogged and put in the cell at the Upper…
Israel Ignores God’s Wishes
Israel rejects what is good;
An enemy shall pursue him.
They have made kings,
But not with My sanction;
They have made officers,
But not of My choice.
Of their silver and gold
They have made…
Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Survival Kit
“…but Rabbi, even if I can read some of the prayers I still don’t understand what I’m saying.… To tell you the truth I’d rather take a quiet reflective walk in the park this…
A Complaint to God and Babylon
The pronouncement made by the prophet Habakkuk.
How long, O Lord, shall I cry out
And You not listen,
Shall I shout to You, “Violence!”
And You not save?
Why do You make me see iniquity
[Why] do…