Yehuda Amichai

Know Before Whom You Stand: Learning From Everyone

Rabbi Jason Miller | Posted 04.25.2012

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Rabbi Jason Miller

We can all learn from those around us, and oftentimes we are forced to think in new and different ways when we keep an open mind to those who think differently than us.

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Simchat Torah: Remembering Creation One More Time

Rabbi Lawrence Troster | Posted 12.19.2011

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Rabbi Lawrence Troster

I will celebrate Simchat Torah and hear again the chanting of the Creation, look at our tree and pray that the world will come to be what it should be.

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Q&A With Nicole Krauss, Author of Great House and The History of Love

Elana Estrin | Posted 11.15.2011

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Elana Estrin

While studying art history in graduate school, novelist Nicole Krauss spent hours in the library researching Rembrandt, only to find that she preferred imagining the details of his life instead.

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Miral Screens at the United Nations General Assembly

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miral, Rabbi Irwin Kula, Mona Eltahawy, Steve Buscemi, Amos Oz, Zac Posen, Laurie Anderson, Sean Penn, Yonatan Schapira, Freida Pintos, Rula Jebreal, Alexander Siddiq, Dan Rathe, Willem Dafoe, David Grossman, Yehuda Amichai, Julian Schnabel, Haim Abbass, Candice Bergen, Lou Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

Schnabel's film does not instigate a new critique. Rather, continues a discourse in Israel with intellectuals and writers like David Grossman, Amos Oz, and Yehuda Amichai.

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