A Difficult Passage in the Talmud

Oil painting of man in beard, furried hat, and prayer shawl looking forward and holding a Torah scroll.

Of the High Priest’s Tribe

An important Jewish genre painter, Kaufman drew inspiration for his romantic depictions of traditional Jewish life from trips to Moravia and Upper Hungary, Galicia and Bukovina and areas of Russian…

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Photograph of a sidewalk where two boys crouch behind a play cannon and another boy sits in a handmade plane.

A "Taube" Is Spotted; A French 75 Is Immediately Put into Battery While "Pépéte," the Aviator, Prepares to Give Chase

In 1915, photographer Léon Gimpel began spending time with a group of children he had encountered in the Rue de Grenata neighborhood in Paris. It was during World War I, and the boys’ favorite…

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Seal with Four-winged Uraeus

This seal, found at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem, shows a uraeus or upright cobra with four wings. Modeled on the black-necked cobra that applies its venom both by biting and spitting, it was…

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Of the High Priest’s Tribe

A "Taube" Is Spotted; A French 75 Is Immediately Put into Battery While "Pépéte," the Aviator, Prepares to Give Chase

Seal with Four-winged Uraeus