Virtually the entirety of today’s daf is taken up with a discussion about the animals offered by the high priest on Yom Kippur. According to the rabbis, the high priest is meant to slaughter a bull and bring its blood with him into the Holy of Holies. On yesterday’s daf the question was asked: What […]
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Many a parent has told their reluctant toddler to “eat your greens!” There’s lots of scientific evidence that richly-colored plants are an important source of vitamins and minerals. Today’s daf echoes this wisdom with its own discussion of the healing properties of cress. Garden cress, scientific name lepidium sativum, is native to much of the Middle […]
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AMSTERDAM (JTA) — In Germany, a man wearing a kippah was beaten on the street. In Austria, a student was harassed on the train for reading a book mentioning Jews in the title. In London, a nurse said she was threatened at her hospital for wearing a Star of David necklace. And in Belgium, an […]
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The Guide to Managing Seed Investments in Start-ups by Jonathan Gan Introduction In this tutorial, I will try to simplify and clarify the process of fundraising for a technology start-up, with an emphasis on the seed investment phase. This will be through providing a practical approach and working method with which you can start or […]
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In the period immediately following spectacular violence, a poem will often go viral on social media. It makes sense that poetry might offer a way out from that space of unrepresentable trauma—a path back to a social form where the true work of redress can take place. Sometimes, though, the turn to poetry feels both […]
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Jaime Lerner, renowned Brazilian-Jewish urban planner and politician, dies at 83 – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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Jaime Lerner, renowned Brazilian-Jewish urban planner and politician, dies at 84 – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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Today the Gemara continues its discussion of a mishnah introduced on the previous page which describes how the high priest measures out incense to be offered in the Holy of Holies in Yom Kippur. Rav Pappa dominates the page, raising a total of six questions, four of which end with the word teyku — ”let it […]
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Today’s daf tells us the story of a remarkable woman named Kimchit: The sages taught: Kimchit had seven sons, and they all served in the office of the high priesthood. The sages said to her: What good deeds did you perform to merit this? She said to them: In all my days, the beams of […]
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Patti Smith and Julian Casablancas among over 600 musicians to call for boycott of Israel – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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