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Today, there again exists a serious threat that the differences within the world-wide Jewish community may end in schism.
The foremost reason for the gravity of the situation is the explosion in Jews…
If being Jewish is to regain its meaning for Jews today, the Jewish community must be transformed. While it’s impossible to “know” the exact shape the new paradigm will take, we must begin, with…
Gentile is a category of difference. It is the point of departure, something self-evident. The Jew at prayer declares this daily: “Thou hast chosen us from all the…
I have been critical of the modern notions of the solitary self and self-validating universalism in the hope of permitting the consciousness of our particularity to…
On August 20, 1906, the settlers of the Jewish Colonization Association, meeting in the town of Basavilbaso, Lucienville Colony…
This is November
Season of mills.
Wind of the black early morning services.
Cemetery
And thousandnightliness
Of the childish little candles,
And their fear.
Trudging now
Through the…
In the year 1885, a few days after the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, it began to rain in the plains surrounding the rivers Rednitz and Pegnitz and continued to do so almost…
She was fourteen when she married him. She too was ornately dressed that day and sat on Preciado’s right. She too danced with him . . . Was not this her wedding night? —No, it is not!The fierce…
Even though the town has a well right in the middle of the marketplace, many of its finest people use river water that they have to carry from the edge of the town half a mile away. The river water is…
We want to scrape off the eggshells of the ghetto and live as children of the present in the midst of German intellectual life, but without breaking with our past and shaking off the legitimate…