Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, September 21, 2022
It is said that Nobel Prize-winning author Shmuel Yoseph Agnon was challenged by a relative of the Archbishop of Canterbury to disclose whether [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, September 20, 2022
It is said that Nobel Prize-winning author Shmuel Yoseph Agnon was challenged by a relative of the Archbishop of Canterbury to disclose whether [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, September 19, 2022
It is said that Nobel Prize-winning author Shmuel Yoseph Agnon was challenged by a relative of the Archbishop of Canterbury to disclose whether [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, September 16, 2022
According to the Talmud, the world was created on the first day of the month of Tishri: Rosh Hashanah. Our High Holy Day [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, September 15, 2022
Today is the International Day of Democracy, first inaugurated in 2007 by the United Nations to honor democracies worldwide. Though the first [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Today, Christians across the world celebrate Holy Cross Day, which commemorates the discovery of the cross that—their tradition holds—was used in the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, September 13, 2022
On this day in 1880, Jesse Louis Lasky, a pioneer in film production, was born to Jewish shoe store owners in San [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, September 12, 2022
On this day, in the year 1683, an army of Christian Europeans defeated the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Vienna. Then, [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, September 9, 2022
This week's Torah portion begins by describing a situation that most of us, thankfully, will find far removed from our personal experience. [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, September 8, 2022
In honor of this Labor Day week, here are some reflections on the history of the labor movement, and Jewish heroes who [...]