Le Chant de Jerusalem

People who do not find Leonard Cohen hot DNI. Judaism and other topics of interest. Glikl of Hameln #1 fan.

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Diane Arbus

1923 – 1971

Man and a Boy on a Bench in Central Park, N. Y. C.

gelatin silver print

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Cotton candy being spun at the Zocalo. Mexico City, Mexico. 2003.

Alex Webb/Magnum Photos

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Aniela Preston

Self Portrait at 24 (I), 2023

Acrylic on canvas

81 x 61 cm

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Frances Joy Macgregor

Litlington Horse

Oil on wood board

48 x 21.5 cm

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Smart Dreidel

Laura Cowan (British, b. 1971)

Tel Aviv, Israel

2008

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Wedding and Shabbat/festival apron of Rosa Korchemnaya (née Shtein, 1888-1963). Ukraine, c. 1900-04. Silk velvet and linen (?) lace.

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Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (known as the Kotzker Rebbe, 1787-1859) once said that a person should walk with two pieces of paper in his pockets. One piece of paper, representing humility, should have written on it “I am dust and ashes”, (Bereishit/Genesis 18:27), the words that Abraham used when beseeching for the salvation of the people of Sedom.

On the other, there should be the words of the Mishna in Sanhedrin (4:5) that state that a person should see himself as being worthy of the world being created just for him, such is the potential greatness inherent in every human being.

   — Rabbi Steven Dansky in Rabbi Sacks And The Community We Built Together, edited by the United Synagogue

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A Jewish Wedding — Jacques Joseph Maquart (1803-1873), French.

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patriarchy is the longest enduring form of subjugation that exists. we need to start saying capitalism exists because of male supremacy. we need to start saying white supremacy exists because of male supremacy. #They like to lie about the order of events to downplay the ideology that unites them all.

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Bronze stamp seal with Menorah and shofar, southern Levant or Syria, 4th–7th century CE.

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Hanukkah lamp, Germany, 18th–early 19th century.

The lamp’s stepped base bears the German inscription “To the children of the Danzig Synagogue Congregation / Simon Anker / Hanukkah 5696 [or, 1935].” Anker was a prominent grain merchant and a synagogue official. The Jewish community of Danzig, however, was only able to enjoy this Hanukkah lamp for four years. In 1939 the Germans overran Danzig, and the community members were coerced to leave; they sent their precious synagogue objects to the Jewish Museum.

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Squamish-Lillooet, Canada by Paul

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Hanukkah lamp by Beverly Pepper (American, active in Italy, 1922-2020). Made in Italy, 1963, steel.

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Every boy becomes a Rabbi, 1965. Boys dressed up as rabbis for Purim. By Irving I. Herzberg (1915-1991).

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Parting Spring by Kawai Gyokudō, 1916

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Hassidic bride escorted to the chuppah by her mother and mother-in-law, 1971, by Irving I. Herzbe (1915-1991).

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Kohal Beth Israel, New York, 1958, by James Van Der Zee (1886-1983).

James Van Der Zee lived and photographed in Harlem for many decades earning him his reputation as both the neighborhood's preeminent photographer and one of the first great African-American photographers of the Twentieth century. This photograph documents the congregants of one Harlem synagogue in the late 1950s.