Category: Festivals
THE FESTIVAL OF THE TEMPORARY HOUSE
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) Sukkot begins with a flimsy hut and ends with... Read More
THE MAN WITH THE UMBRELLA
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) Jonas Hanway was not a man who was easily... Read More
THE ELEVEN DAYS THAT DISAPPEARED
Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, was an ambassador, a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,... Read More
A PLACE OF HONOR
An anthropologist, an astronomer, an archaeologist, a linguist, a materials scientist, and a man who... Read More
WRITTEN IN BLOOD
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) Can a Jew ever be too far gone? In... Read More
A DAY OF JUDGEMENT AND JOY
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) Yom Kippur can feel like a day to endure:... Read More
DON’T GO OVERBOARD
When Barnett Isaacs stepped off the boat at Cape Town in 1873, his entire commercial... Read More
A MAGIC PILL FOR THE COMING YEAR
In May 1910, Americans were preparing for the possible end of the world. Thankfully, they... Read More