Click Here to Read: A new ‘Merchant of Venice’ production challenges anti-Jewish tropes by doubling down on them. A “contemporary, spirited” version of Shakespeare’s play opens off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company By Joseph Strauss November 20, 2024.
Shakespeare’s comedy of the Merchant of Venice. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: The Trump landslide that wasn’t By Anita Chabria in the Los Angeles Times on November 21, 2024. I
Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Prescott Valley Event Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona. mage: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: History of the Jews of Ukraine Once Europe’s largest Jewish community, Ukraine has had a major influence on the development of Ashkenazi Jewish culture on the My Jewish Learning website.
Jewish musicians (Faust family) from Rohatyn (modern western Ukraine). Klezmorim (Klezmers) – traditional musicians among Jews, most of them members of the Faust family. Rohatyn, 1912 (then in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian monarchy). Jewish klezmer music band, antique photo. Image: Unknown photographer from Rohatyn
Click Here to Read: World’s oldest writing system may have its origins in mysterious, undeciphered symbols By Ashley Strickland on the CNN website on November 7, 2024.
Cuneiform tablet describing religious devotion and civic achievements of Nebuchadnezzar II (BM 129397 reverse), British Museum, London. Source: unknown. uploaded as w:en:Image:Cuneiform script.jpg by en:User:ChrisO Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
