What Is the Night of the Murdered Soviet Jewish Poets? Originally Published August 16-17, 2019.
August 19, 2019
Last Monday, August 12th, was the anniversary of the murder in 1952 of imprisoned Jewish poets. They had been kept for two months for regular beatings and an intensive trial in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow. It was only during the Save Soviet Jewry movement that information began to appear. The New York Times in […]
What Is Shabbat Hazon? Originally Published August 9-10, 2019.
August 9, 2019
You will hear the word “hazon” at the very beginning of this Shabbat’s haftarah. Sometimes referred to as the Sabbath of Vision, the word “hazon” means “the prophesying,” referring to the foretellings of Isaiah son of Amoz, and it follows the line of the haftarot for these weeks - the people have not paid attention, […]