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From poems to songs
Loolwa Khazzoom (photo by Moriel O’Connor) “Dear Hostages, as the world rallies…
Reviving suppressed works
ARC Ensemble (photo from Royal Conservatory of Music) Over the span of…
Galilee goes free, or the tetragrammaton only knows why a poem in Adeena Karasick’s Aerotomania: The Book of Lumenations is dedicated to me
According to the Babylonian Talmud (Eruvin 53b), the Hebrew-speakers of ancient Judea…
Openings in wake of COVID
Inscribing what the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas might call espace vital (the space…
Mysteries to be solved
The past can consume you if you let it. And reality isn’t…
Perfect gifts for holiday
In 2019, NASA astronaut and scientist Jessica Meir was part of the…
History both good, bad
Theodor Herzl, during the First Zionist Congress, in Basel, Switzerland, 1897. (photo…
Hebraization of names
The Ben-Gurion family in their Tel Aviv home, 1929. From left: David…
Exploring sufganiyot’s origins
Sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts) for Hanukkah have come a long way, and now…
Apple latkes a sweet change
There is no particular history associated with apple latkes that I can…
