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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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Drawing of figure crouched down next to central altar and winged sphinx, under set of parallel lines.
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Ivory Box with Ritual Scene

This ritual scene was carved twice on a cylindrical ivory box from Hazor, about 2.7 inches high and 2.2 inches in diameter (7 × 6 cm). A kneeling man raises his hands in prayer toward a stylized tree…

Born in the R.S.A.

Thenjiwe:What place is this?Zachariah:John Vorster Square!Thenjiwe:Aaaah!Susan:They told me that they were going to charge me. That meant a lot of things. That I would be sent to Diepkloof to await…
Square limestone altar with horns at four upper corners and recessed band below offering surface.
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Small Limestone Altar from Megiddo

This altar is 21 inches (55 cm) high. Its styling, its square shape, the central band and rim, the groove between them, and the well-defined horns are characteristic of altars from the Northern…

610 Bedford Drive—I’m an American

Odets:(pulls a silver cigarette case from his pocket, takes out an unfiltered cigarette, offers the case to Werfel) Smoke?Werfel:Nicotine is bad for you…thanks. (He takes out three cigarettes and puts…

Zionism and Racism

Reproaches, condemnations, indictments by other nations—the plot is clear. It leads to the public humiliation, the forced isolation of a people whose suffering is the oldest in the world. Arrests…

A Cosmic Jew

The old Bat Shlomo, the one to the south of the road, is a very small village, just a handful of old houses set among tall trees. Here and there a tractor is parked under an asbestos lean-to. Chickens…

Jewish Life-Long Learning

Taking a leaf from the role of learning amongst many Modern/Centrist Zionist Orthodox Jews, adult Jewish study should become a permanent feature of the Jewish home everywhere, whereby adults are…
Drawing of figures creating large sculptures of men and sphinx.
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Comfort for the Exiles in Babylon

Comfort, oh comfort My people, Says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, And declare to her That her term of service is over, That her iniquity is expiated; For she has received at the hand of…