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On the revolving stage, a shop called Burgermatch, with a sign that reads: “Buy 10 hamburgers, get a free tennis racket.” Next to it, a sports goods store, Our Sports, with a sign saying “Buy a…
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Orly Castel-Bloom
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Haifa, Israel
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1994
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Before I left Chicago, the art critic Harold Rosenberg said to me, “Going to Jerusalem? And wondering whether people will talk freely? You’ve got to be kidding, they’ll talk your head off.” He spoke…
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Saul Bellow
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Chicago, United States of America
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1976
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Gradually we learned these things: The government of Sudan could not admit to helping Jews. Sudan, after all, was a friend of the other Arab nations, and there is fighting between Arabs and Jews…
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Sonia Levitin
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Los Angeles, United States of America
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1987
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We affirm the reality and oneness of God, even as we may differ in our understanding of the Divine presence.
We affirm that the Jewish people is bound to God by an eternal בְּרִית (b’rit), covenant…
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Central Conference of American Rabbis
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1999
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The northern Negev and the Negev mountain range
Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like watercourse in the Negev
They who sow in tears shall reap with songs of joy
—Psalms 126:4–5
More than half of the…
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Seffi Ben-Yoseph
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1985
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Next on our list of “things-to-do-today” was the Ramparts Walk to enable people to walk atop almost the entire circumference of the wall, excepting the area of the Temple Mount and the mosques. This…
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Teddy Kollek, Shulamith Eisner
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1990
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Dramatic poem by Angiolo Orvieto Music by Giacomo Orefice
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Angiolo Orvieto
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Florence, Kingdom of Italy (Florence, Italy)
Date:
1905
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The Jewish Publication Society of America (JPS) was founded in Philadelphia in 1888. (It had a number of precursors that did not last.) Today, JPS is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher…
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Moses Ezekiel
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1913
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Song without Words, painted in Jaffa ca. 1911–1913. Like many of Jan’s works, this painting is suffused with poetic and atmospheric symbolism. Here, a beautiful young woman with haunted eyes holds a…
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1914
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I, Shalom, the humble son of the honorable R. Joseph Alsheikh, God keep him and save him, wish to elucidate here the beginning of Yemenite settlement in Jerusalem, may it be built and established…
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Shalom Alsheikh
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1908