Judaism articles from January 1995

Judaism archives from January 1995

Churchill and Palestine. (Winston Churchill)
January 1, 1995... One day in London half a century ago I met Herbert Samuel at his home on Porchester Terrace - I had a letter of introduction from my father. Another day I heard Winston Churchill speak in Parliament. These personal memories of men who had played...

The eighth and thirteenth. (poetry)
January 1, 1995... The Eighth of Shostakovich, Music about the worst Horror history offers, They played on public radio Again last night. In solitude I sipped my wine, I drank That somber symphony To the vile lees. The composer Draws out the minor thirds, the brass...

From 'In the Garden of Delights.'
January 1, 1995... The song of songs is a poem about the sexual awakening of a young woman and her lover. In a series of subtly articulated scenes, the two meet in an idealized landscape of fertility and abundance - a kind of Eden - where they discover the...

Defilement of the hands, canonization of the Bible, and the special status of Esther, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs.
January 1, 1995... Introduction In various places in talmudic literature the ability of three books of the Bible - Esther, Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes - to make one's hands unclean ([Hebrew text omitted]) is doubted, with various Talmudic authorities ruling...

Where God is not: the book of Esther and Song of Songs.
January 1, 1995... But that which is edifying is so only because it already conforms . . . the plain sense is always dependent on the understanding of larger wholes and on changing custom and authority. . . .(2) The Teaching that Wasn't There The name of God,...

Ghosts. (poem)
January 1, 1995... even in winter through snow deep as my thighs my father walked me to synagogue short-cutting through the puking lot of the country club with (it was said) a token Jewish member and past the skating pond where every other neighborhood child was...

Who knows Four? The Imahot in rabbinic Judaism. (the Matriarchs)
January 1, 1995... To the memory of Rabbi William G. Braude, teacher, colleague, and friend Recently there has been much interest in the imahot - the Matriarchs, and their use in the liturgy. A number of contemporary editions of the siddur have included the...

Bar Mitzvah in Szekesfehervar. (short story)
January 1, 1995... I hated Szekesfehervar the first time I saw it. How could I not hate it? I was a sophisticated ten year old - well, actually in July 1946 only nine years and three months old, but considered myself to be ten since I was in my tenth year. I came...