Daily Kavanah – Thursday, August 20, 2020
On this day in 1684, a mob attack on the ghetto of Padua led to the establishment of Buda Purim, celebrated long thereafter [...]
On this day in 1684, a mob attack on the ghetto of Padua led to the establishment of Buda Purim, celebrated long thereafter [...]
“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” One-hundred-fifty years ago today, the famous financier, Bernard Baruch, was born [...]
"The secret of our Peoples' persistence is that at a very early period, the Prophets taught us to respect only the power of [...]
For those of us keeping count, today marks the 105th anniversary of Leo Frank’s lynching in Atlanta. A 31-year-old New York Jew turned [...]
Do I need my mask for this? Having just moved from our apartment to a home, I’ve been confronted with a new dilemma. [...]
One of the many dilemmas raised by the COVID pandemic consists of the conflict between individual liberties and public safety. Oddly, in Jewish [...]
“Jewish terrorists have just blown up the King David Hotel!” – United Press International, London On July 22, 1946, the militant Zionist underground [...]
Beginning on Rosh Hodesh Av, which we observe today, many Jews commence rituals of mourning leading up to Tisha B’Av (the ninth of [...]
In the Army, they called it “a case of the Mondays.” Some soldiers would always struggle on the first day back from the [...]
“One who shames her neighbor publicly is akin to one who sheds the blood of another.” — Babylonian Talmud Bab Metzia 58B In [...]