Employees at Bosnia’s National Museum, known as the British Museum of the Balkans, returned to work on Wednesday to prepare for the re-opening of the institution which was closed three years ago over ...
For the first time in its history, a 14th-century masterpiece considered one of the most precious Jewish illuminated manuscripts in the world, will be exhibited to the public. Produced in northern ...
Yiddish, which combined Hebrew with primarily Medieval German, was only spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. When they were busy “noshing” (eating) and “kvetching” (complaining). Sephardic Jews had a variety of ...
SACRAMENTO – It's a story about hope and survival: An ancient Jewish manuscript saved by different religious groups in the span of 600 years reminds us today about the power of the human spirit. "It's ...
A book about the preservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah is Australia’s Book of the Year. “People of the Book,” by Geraldine Brooks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former Middle East correspondent for ...
For 14 years now, I’ve reviewed haggadahs for this publication. Often, I find they illuminate developments in the Jewish world, such as growing independence, creativity, fragmentation, and ...
Symbols of Solidarity at the Bouskila Seder: Darom Wines from Southern Israel, the Freedom Haggadah with hostage testimonies, and the southern Red Poppy flower blooming with hope. In Hebrew, Seder ...
The Haggadah is its written foundation — a guide, script and evolving commentary. While Haggadot may be relevant to the issues of their time, Rabbi Dobrusin explains, the exodus from Egypt is its ...