David Sigal A tasty tradition: The Great Challah Bake Colorado, inspired by The Shabbat Project, unites more than 700 women denverpost.com - Shannon M. Hoffman BMH-BJ Synagogue in Denver was buzzing with energy Thursday evening as more than 700 Jewish women united to celebrate the Jewish day of rest together. …
David Sigal Leonard Cohen, Judaism's Bard The Atlantic - Jonathan FreedlandThroughout his career, the singer’s heritage and faith suffused his music. Robert Zimmerman became Bob Dylan, Allen Konigsberg became Woody Allen, but Leonard Cohen stayed Leonard Cohen. Coming of age
David Sigal How did the Jews survive? Two unlikely historical explanations | OUPblog oup.com How have the Jews survived over the centuries? This is a question that has intrigued and perplexed many. While powerful world empires have risen and …
David Sigal Rabbi David Wolpe: A response to my critics jewishjournal.com - BY Rabbi David Wolpe | Jun 13, 2017 | Opinion Recently I was talking to my friend Ryan on the phone when I heard a strange sound from his end. He said it was a... Sometimes, everything feels …
David Sigal Who will be our rabbis? timesofisrael.com - Lindsey Amit Perry The “Holy Jew” of Pryzucka once said: “First there were the prophets, but God looked and saw that the situation was deteriorating and that the …
David Sigal This 400-Year-Old Jewish Library Survived The Inquisition — And Hitler forward.com - Cnaan Liphshiz AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Livraria Ets Haim is the world’s oldest functioning Jewish library. As such, it is no stranger to the prospect of imminent …
David Sigal Report: Muslim Extremists Drive Anti-Semitic Violence in Europe breitbart.com - Simon Kent Individuals of Muslim background stand out among perpetrators of anti-Semitic violence in Western Europe, according to a new report by the University …
David Sigal The Baal Shem Tov jewishhistory.org The spiritual vacuum created by false messiahs, poverty and persecution in Eastern Europe was filled by the Chassidic Movement, founded by the Baal …
David Sigal The House of Rashi jewishhistory.org The foundations of Ashkenazic Jewry in Western Europe, and later Eastern Europe, are really essentially the story of one family: the family of Rashi, …
David Sigal The End of Spanish Jewry jewishhistory.org In the 14th century, the bubonic plague, the Black Death, ravaged Europe – including the Jews who, on top of everything else, were blamed for causing …
David SigalIcon version of the Flipboard logoJewish Culture Judaism, Middle Eastern again thejc.com - Ben Judah We do not know if Benjamin of Tudela traded coral or gems. We do not know the name of his parents, or the names of his lovers. Nor do we know the …
David Sigal Being Wagner by Simon Callow review – what makes Wagner so controversial? The Guardian - Thomas LaqueurWhat was it like to be Wagner? Why has he always exerted such a strong pull? This is an astute book on a man without boundaries This book grew out of the research Simon Callow did for a play, Inside Wagner’s
David Sigal The Rebbe’s Conversation with a Passionate Musician chabad.org I studied law at the London School of Economics, which we also called the London Shul of Economics because of the many American Jews studying there. …
David SigalIcon version of the Flipboard logo After London jihad massacre, Facebook removes video claiming connection between terrorism and Islam jihadwatch.org
David Sigal Jewish Humor in America | My Jewish Learning myjewishlearning.com - William Novak One of the complicating factors in identifying American Jewish humor is that American Jews themselves have been strangely reluctant to recognize it …
David Sigal Finding Meaning in an Ancient Farming Law | My Jewish Learning myjewishlearning.com - Rabbi Justin Goldstein According to Rabbinic tradition, there are 613 mitzvot, or commandments, in the Torah: 365 things you should not do and 248 things you should …
David Sigal Ben Zion Shenker: The Unsung Composer of the Songs We All Sing ou.org - JA Mag Ben Zion Shenker, z”l, 1925-2016 © Milken Family Foundation. Courtesy of the Milken Archive of Jewish MusicBy David OlivestoneThis past November, on …
David Sigal Modi’in: Where the Maccabees Lived biblicalarchaeology.org - Robin Ngo Where is Modi’in, hometown of the Maccabees? Excavations conducted at Umm el-‘Umdan within the modern Israeli city of Modi’in have uncovered evidence …
David Sigal Delayed by Nazis, bar mitzvah to now be celebrated by 89-year-old Holocaust survivor Chicago Tribune - By Ron GrossmanHarold Katz didn't require a crash course in Hebrew before his bar mitzvah next week in Wilmette. He started preparing 76 years ago, and his skills never got rusty. Katz, 89, who lives in a North Side
David Sigal Rabbi Moses Sofer jewishhistory.org The Volozhin Yeshiva (Academy), which was the main yeshiva in Lithuania, was closed in 1892 by the Russian government. There were many reasons why …
David Sigal Guilt and Horror jewishhistory.org The end of the war in the European theater in May 1945 allowed the world for the first time to see what had happened to the Jewish community. And it …
David Sigal Learning From Our Mistakes | My Jewish Learning myjewishlearning.com - Evonne Marzouk In the Torah portion of Nasso, we learn of the treatment of the Sotah, a wife who is suspected of adultery. Because her guilt cannot be proven by …
David SigalIcon version of the Flipboard logo A glimpse into Azerbaijan’s hidden all-Jewish town timesofisrael.com - By Lee Gancman KRASNAYA SLOBODA, Azerbaijan — “Not good,” Rabbi Yona Yaakobi says in Hebrew, expressing his distaste while pointing to a grave featuring a statue of …
David Sigal Judaism, neuroscience and the free will hypothesis (Part 1) | Jewish Journal jewishjournal.com - BY Roger Price | May 26, 2017 | Judaism and Science Forget Moses’s impassioned plea to the Israelites concerning their choices among the many blessings and curses that God reportedly set before them as …
David Sigal Sanhedrin Trail to be Israel’s first interactive hiking path - ISRAEL21c israel21c.org - By Naama Barak Israel’s first “smart” hiking trail, under construction between Tiberias and Beit Sheʽarim National Park in the Lower Galilee, will bring hikers back …
David Sigal In Israel, Trump reinforces the Wall | Jewish Journal jewishjournal.com - BY Rob Eshman | May 23, 2017 | Rob Eshman Let the record show: On May 23, 2017, the president of the United States updated his Twitter header to display a photograph of himself standing at …
