It is time to get a new season started. This prologue introduces the idea that every story has a topography on which it unfolds. In particular, it is a framing of the season ahead questions in three...
Tag - Jewish history
TJS2 Epilogue: The re-emergence of Jewish political theology and messianism in 1948
What better way to wrap up season two than to talk about the messiah? Here is an exploration of the power of the messianic idea and its centrality to Jewish thought. It also includes the introduction...
Made in 1948 – Three historic decisions that shaped the birth of modern-day Israel
Declaring a state is a matter of moments, but birthing it can be a much more prolonged process. The last episode in season two is a look at a series of decisions taken by Ben Gurion in the months...
Speak on it, Rabbi
You know that earthquake that happened Friday night near Alhambra? Yeah, that was caused by the earth-shaking speech given by Rabbi Moshe Greenwald of Downtown Los Angeles’ Chabad. Just...
You’re Welcome
I’m Queen Esther. I took the place of Ahashverosh’s wife Vashti who apparently wasn’t obedient enough. King A-money had a competition to find a new wifey. All the finest...
A Wooden Synagogue is Rising from the Ashes
In the course of World War II, an entire class of architecture was obliterated: the elaborate and sophisticated wooden synagogues of Poland. Not a single example of these remarkable structures...
Jews: 4000 Years in 4 Minutes
Oy va viral video voy… God as a character from Monty Python? Moses as a California surfer dude? Goliath as Apu on the Simpsons? Judeans with cowboy accents? Israeli viral content agency...
It’s Purim Time!!
Purim and Activism from Eli Joseph – Taken from my living room in Maaleh Adumim Some thoughts.. When I was growing up, I had a very minimal relationship with Purim. For me, it felt like the...