Ruth Calderon used to have a show on Israeli TV called החדר. The shows featured Calderon and a guest or two who addressed issues relating to Judaism and Jewish culture, Zionism, Jewish texts, and Israeli culture. Archived videos of the program can be found here. Below is an episode that discussed Bave Metzia 84a, Rabbi [...]
Tomer Persico has posted a prayer written by Rav Kook in honor of the British conquest of Jerusalem along with a special prayer for England. Below is the prayer for the British conquest of Jerusalem. (Hebrew)
The following news article appeared on the front page of the New York Times on June 30, 1967. It describes the removal of the barriers that once divided Jerusalem. I have a special affinity for this article and not only because of the joyous news that it reports, but also because it appeared in the [...]
Now that the Jerusalem City Council has decided to name a street (it will be on Givat Ram) after Yeshayahu Leibowitz, I recommend watching these documentaries about him to see what he had to say. The first documentary consists of two videos and has English subtitles. The third video is another fascinating documentary that is [...]
One of the most well-known songs associated with Yom ha-Zikaron (Israeli Memorial Day) is Haim Gouri’s Bab el-Wad, known by many through the singing of Yaffa Yarkoni. The song is a powerful and moving memorial for the soldiers who fought in order to bring supplies to Jerusalem during the War of Independence through Bab el-Wad [...]
In a recent post Reading Teḥumin in Teheran, I brought Thamar E. Gindin’s theory that those who are writing the Hebrew news items on Iran’s Hebrew language news site are native Arab speakers. More support for this theory can now be found in Shlomi Eldar’s article in Al-Monitor, which is an excellent source of commentary [...]
Below is an interview with David Hartman from 1987 that had a big impact on me when it was first published and still does to this day. Interview with David Hartman.-Pluralism and Religious Zionism Also see this post by Eliyahu Stern about David Hartman’s Zionism at Open Zion.
Below is a rare film clip of Lord Balfour visiting Tiberias in 1925. (HT) See here for an newspaper article about the visit and here for a recollection of how his visit affected a little girl.
The Israel Antiquities Authority has begun to post online the archive from the period of the British Mandate. It is sure to be one of the most important resources for the study of life in Palestine during the British Mandate. Its focus is on material about archaeological excavations that were conducted during that period or [...]
(From THE BLOG OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH LAW) Alexander Kaye, former CJL Graduate Fellow in Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Studies and currently the Tikvah Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jewish Thought at Princeton, recently completed his PhD at Columbia’s history department. His dissertation, ‘The Legal Philosophies of Religious Zionism, 1937-1967,’ is an important contribution to scholarship [...]
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