Not only is it with Wisdom that God created the Universe, but that Wisdom for all people is preceded by God.

The greatest talents of European classical music made Los Angeles their center.

טיילן פֿונעם וועג, ווען דער ים־פֿלייץ איז אַ צופֿלייץ און די כוואַליעס קומען נישט אָן אַזוי נאָענט צום דרך.

Bialik wrote many children’s songs, all of which are still endlessly sung to children today. But Bialik scholars speak of hidden layers, radical messaging, and multiple hidden meanings in his songs.

It is too early to think of our lives alone. We still live in a city of hunger and homelessness, where members of our community have been turned into fugitives, where children are still struggling to get the educations that they deserve, where the housing that is available is neither affordable nor always well maintained (regardless of cost), where race and ethnicity mean more than they should when it comes to opportunity, where the environment is respected only sometimes, where corruption is rife, and where communities that should be working together are turned against each other.

One of the items that came out of the boxes of records that Der Nister acquired recently is entitled “Song from the Ghetto,” and includes four pieces of music recorded by Cantor Joseph S. Lengyel (aka Josef Schwarzmer Lengyel) on three 78 rpm records.

An ideal society, according to Buber, is neither one made up of fragmented individuals who keep to themselves nor one that enshrines the collective by erasing the individual. An ideal society is one in which distinct, fully developed, and fulfilled individuals form true connections with one another and continue to develop these networks of connection within a structured system.

We don’t take the idea of being blessed or cursed as seriously as it was taken in the Biblical world.

דער קאָלעקטיוו אַרבעט צו באַערן די טראַדיציע פֿון דער ייִדישער דרוק־קולטור דורך לעטערפּרעס.

The danger isn't simply that some people win and others lose. The danger is what happens to us after we win.

When I sold these books I thought that they were going to a person or an institution where they would be read as the books that they are rather than turned into data for a machine.

God cannot force us to see Him as more important than the world that is right before our eyes.

Why is it so important that Moses loses responsibility and the Children of Israel take it on, for Moses’ own failure? 

Israel, like the Netherlands, is a small country with a strong literary culture and a healthy publishing industry. Nevertheless, certain types of subject matter don’t seem to get much play.

“…there is nothing like experiencing failure to give you a more intense understanding of responsibility—that is, if you manage to open yourself to it wholly and without prevarication—as responsibility for one's self.”

צו רעדן אַן אַלטע שפּראַך אין אַ נײַעם אָרט

According to Fromm, narcissism was not only an individual trait. Individuals could sometimes transfer their narcissism onto groups. Instead of saying: "I am wonderful," they say: "My nation is wonderful, my religion is perfect, my race is superior, my political movement alone possesses truth, my denomination alone is chosen."

The AI revolution is causing a realignment of the ways that we provide for ourselves economically. I could have said jobs, but even the idea of what a job is seems to be up for grabs.

In the poem that I have translated, Yehoyash references the expulsion of the Jews from Judea that Tisha B'Av commemorates, but turns his focus to assimilation that Yehoyash lived through in the Russian Empire and America, where children become instrumentalized to destroy the old world culture.

דער ערשטער מאָמענט וואָס איך בין אַרײַנגעגאַנגען אויפֿן באָדן פֿונעם פֿעסטיוואַל־אָרט, האָב איך זיך געפֿילט ווי איך וואָלט געװען אַרײַן אין אַ בלעזל, אָדער ווי איך וואָלט געהאַט ארײַנגעקומען אין אַ שלאָס.