Category: Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur
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
LEARNING SOMETHING NEW
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) The Rosh Hashana machzor has 100’s of pages and... Read More
OUT OF PROPORTION
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) In 1544, a Flemish instrument-maker named Gerard de Kremer... Read More