by admin-md | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Book of Genesis records the family history of the Jewish People and, in doing so, projects the Jewish People into the future. One generation gives birth to another – we are thus linked to those who came before us, and also serve as their destiny. The first steps of...
by admin-md | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Book of Exodus relates that when the Israelites arrived at Mt. Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments the mountain was all in smoke and trembled violently. Thunder and lightening crashed all around. At that moment a covenant was made between God and the Jewish...
by admin-md | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
“When I go to the Israelites and tell them that You have appeared to me,” said Moses to God at the Burning Bush, “Whom shall I tell them has sent me?” God then replied to Moses, telling him the name by which He was to be called:...
by admin-md | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
“The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence – these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.” Albert Einstein (1879-1955) The...
by admin-md | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Describing the Jewish world of his era as “Moishe kapoyer” (topsy-turvy), Marc Chagall made decorations for the Yiddish theater in which images were upside down. This idea inspired my piece. A drawn and silk-screened representation of rabbis and Hebrew...
