Tag: Jewish Heritage

In this personal reflection by Etgar Keret, he describes taking his 7-year-old son Lev to vote in the 2013 elections, reflecting on his own childhood memory of voting after the Yom Kippur War.
In Poland, there is a growing interest in Jewish heritage and a revival of Jewish identity, with people rediscovering their hidden Jewish roots and converting back to Judaism.
Chefs Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi, originally from Jerusalem but now based in London, collaborated on "Jerusalem: A Cookbook" to revisit the flavors of their childhood and share recipes from Palestinian and Sephardic communities.
Etgar Keret shares his journey of imagining and visiting his mother's homeland of Poland, where she grew up in Warsaw and survived the Holocaust.
The text discusses the relationship between the author and Norman Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary magazine, focusing on Podhoretz's controversial views on race, Judaism, and the coverage of the trial of Adolf Eichmann by Hannah Arendt.
Israeli Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz has completed a 45-year project by releasing a new Hebrew translation of the Talmud, starting in 1965 and working to make the ancient texts accessible to Israelis by translating Aramaic to modern Hebrew.