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Articles by My Jewish Learning
Gothic Narratives of Israel / Palestine in Hebrew Novels by Ayman Sikseck and Alon Hilu
This presentation will focus on Ayman Sikseck’s novel “Tishrin” (2016) and Alon Hilu’s novel “Ahuzat Dajani” (The House of Rajani, ...
The Workers Circle Presents Irena Klepfisz: Her Birth and Later Years
For fifty years, Irena Klepfisz has written powerful, searching poems about relatives murdered during the war, recent immigrants, a lost ...
The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire with Joseph Sassoon
The influential merchants of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shaped the globalization of today. The Sassoons, a Baghdadi-Jewish trading ...
A Taste of AJU’s Global Jewish Life Tours: Caesarea
Built two thousand years ago by Rome’s Judean Governor Herod the Great, Caesarea was one of the largest and most ...
Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month
The month of February is Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month (JDAIM) and Judaism Your Way has joined with Jewish ...
Oasis: A New Drama Film
OASIS, the award-winning monodrama by Amir Peter tells the story of Noel, a young Frenchman who, in the 1950s, was ...
Rethinking Faith
At a time in winter where we’re invited to trust the silent work of nature under the earth before the ...
The Jews of Crimea and the Story of the Karaites
The peninsula of Crimea, on the northern shore of the Black Sea, has been historically a land of different peoples ...
Seeking Sanctuary: 125 Years of Synagogues on Long Island
In Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, the author of the book Seeking Sanctuary: 125 Years of Synagogues on ...