Almanac for the Year 5675

Painting of man playing flute to animals in desert.

First Fruits

Rubin was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the conventions of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. They drew on the ideas…

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Born a Jew

A letter from Zuckerman, the commissioner, evidently written by an agitated hand. It had come from Brest Litovsk bringing the news of horror. He had been in Pinsk and…

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Photograph of men in hats and suits and one boy in skullcap outside with their backs turned away from the camera, looking toward the river.

Yom Kippur, East River, New York City

Though this photograph of Orthodox Jews at the East River has long been captioned as having been taken on Yom Kippur, it is much more likely that it was taken on the first afternoon of Rosh Hashanah…

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Almanac for the Year 5675

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