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As for me, my youth began very early. At the age of ten, I was already a grownup, a Polner mentsh, as the Jews said. Besides my diligent studies, back then I was a “God-seeker.” I felt confined, and…
Today I returned from my trip to Tunis, and I will start to record what I witnessed, heard, and felt. On Thursday, 15 Iyyar (May 20, 1943), I left Tripoli. [ . . . ]
On that day…
Taking a leaf from the role of learning amongst many Modern/Centrist Zionist Orthodox Jews, adult Jewish study should become a permanent feature of the Jewish home everywhere, whereby adults are…
Cover of Else Lasker-Schüler, Hebraische Balladen. Most of the poems in this volume have biblical themes. The drawing on the cover is by Lasker-Schüler, who often illustrated her published poetry. It…
This bronze plaque, one of the many decorative art objects produced in the workshops of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, depicts the biblical prophet Jeremiah, whose name is…
The problem concerning the establishment of a Higher School for Jewish studies, which was recently raised by the Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia (OPE), should be…
[ . . . ] The two worlds, in my childhood, were not really separate. The synagogue in Graham Street, to which we walked across the Meadows every Saturday morning, was as much a part of the Edinburgh…
“Reb Hersh,” I finally said, “as I sat here listening to you, I sometimes thought I was listening to myself. And since it’s harder to lie to yourself than to someone else, I will answer you as though…
For the first fifteen years of our lives, Danny and I lived within five blocks of each other and neither of us knew of the other’s existence. [ . . . ]
Danny and I probably would never have met—or we…
This book deals with the problem of religion in contemporary Jewish education. It grew out of my thinking and teaching about Jewish education, which made me realize that religion is always on the…