The work of Israeli photographer Gilad Ophir has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Israel, the United States, and Europe. He has received the Israel Ministry of Science and Culture Award (2002). His photographs are found in the Tate Modern, the Israel Museum, and the Jewish Museum.
Our generation came to this country from lands where Jewish life had been lived within its own boundaries, and where our communal leaders had instilled in us a sense of responsibility to ensure that…
City plan incised on clay tablet, Babylonia. The command in Ezekiel 4:1 to “incise Jerusalem” on a brick may have meant to incise a map of it, like this map of the Babylonian city Nippur (near where…
Nineteen nineteen was one of the most difficult years for the Bolsheviks. The civil war flared up in every corner of Russia. In Ukraine, Petliura, Grigoriev, Denikin…