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In 1492, a Benedictine abbot named Johannes Trithemius sat down to write a treatise defending the ancient art of manuscript copying against a dangerous new technology. He argued that hand-copied text on parchment would outlast printed text on paper by centuries. He made the case that the labor of copying Scripture was itself a form […]
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My favorite time in the Jewish calendar is almost here. Not Passover. Or, better yet, not only Passover. On the second night of Passover, we will begin to Count the Omer for 49 Days! Counting the Omer (or as it is known in Hebrew, “Sefirat HaOmer”) is at once one of the simplest and most […]
Matzah, the most important food at the Seder, seems straightforward but if you think about it, it’s actually somewhat complicated. On the one hand, it symbolizes and celebrates freedom; it’s the bread over which we recline like aristocrats and tell the story of our liberation. On the other hand, it’s called "lechem oni," the bread […]
Living in Israel during the current war with Iran, in between running to our bomb shelter during ballistic missile attacks, I usually try to chill out by reading the news. (Yes, I know that’s crazy, but a brain that repeatedly gets interrupted by air raid sirens during sleep cycles doesn’t think clearly.) What irritates me […]
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An anti-Israel channel claimed Israel is digging under the Al-Aqsa mosque, threatening its foundations — and that archaeologists have found nothing to prove Jews ever lived here. We took a tour to find out for ourselves.
