This silver Torah pointer from Yemen is inscribed in Hebrew: “[The teaching of the Lord is perfect, renewing life; the decrees of the Lord are enduring, making the simple wise;] the precepts of the…
To thee I come, O long-abandoned god
Of early moons and unremembered days,
To thee whose reign was in a greener world
Among a race of men divine with youth,
Strong generations of the sons of earth:
T…
In Exile, a column of Jews makes their way across a barren landscape that evokes the desert that the biblical Israelites wandered for forty years. But the people here are clearly East European Jews…