Faces decorating a siddur

Wood wall piece with bold Hebrew letters and flowers

Omer Calendar

This omer calendar, marking the days between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot, is still used at Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia. The letters stand for H=Homer (Ladino for Omer); S…

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Yosef omets (He Will Be Stronger): On Yom Kippur Eve

985. The ancient custom of kaparot [having a chicken slaughtered after symbolically transferring one’s sins to it] is well known; I will only write that my custom is also to say, based on the Maharal…

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Photograph of men standing and sitting in bunks wearing striped shirts and looking at camera. The one closest to the camera holds a Diet Coke.

Self-Portrait at Buchenwald: It’s the Real Thing

In 1993, Schechner digitally inserted himself into a historical photograph of prisoners in a newly liberated bunker at the Buchenwald concentration camp, taken in 1945 by Margaret Bourke-White. He…

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Faces decorating a siddur

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