Click Here to Read: A Hanukkah Tale From Old Russia: A mysterious czarist soldier tries to persuade his community he’s Jewish by Curt Leviant on the Tablet website on December 16, 2020. Hanukkah menorah, Russia, 1890, brass, National Museum of American Jewish History. Imagea: Wmpearl Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: The Event That Sparked the Movement to Free Soviet Jewry: Fifty years ago, the Leningrad Trial spurred the American Jewish community to action by Glenn Richter and Avi Weiss on the Tablet website on December 15, 2020. Jewish Emgiration from the USSR, before and after the First Leningrad Trial.. Image: Azk0702 Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: Want to Understand 2020? Look at 1840: How one seminal moment in Jewish mystical life provides profound insight into our present moment by Dovid Bashevkin on the Tablet website on December 14, 2020.
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition. Translation and commentary by Daniel C. Matt. Stanford University Press, 2003. Image: Jonund Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to read: The Sassoon Family Collection: A Sotheby’s curator describes an important sale of Judaica from ‘The Rothschilds of the East,’ who dominated the opium and cotton trades in the Persian Gulf, India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan BY Shaul Swidler-Feller on the Tablet website on December 14, 2020.
David Sassoon (seated) and his sons w:Elias David Sassoon, w:Albert Abdallah David Sassoon & w:Sassoon David Sassoon. Image: Unknown photographer, mid-19th century. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: A Jew Is a Jew Is a Jew: Novelist and critic Clive James and theater director Jonathan Miller, who died within days of each other this fall, shared breadth of passions and influential cultural positions. One was Jewish. The other was not—but he understood Jews better by Howard Jacobson on the Tablet Website on December 11, 2020.
Jonathan Miller appearing on “After Dark” Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. Clive James and Nefertiti in the Flak Tower.
