Mahzor

New York Public Library

Churches

Sarajevo Haggadah

Mah Nishtanah

Sarajevo haggadah

Antaea Darom

Israeli women's art

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Torah as music

Ben Heine

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ceramic bowl

Mohammad Said Kalash, "Offering Reconciliation" exhibit (photo: Ilan Amihai)

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Punch and Judy/Pinchas and Jamila

Avi Katz

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David Grossman

Ben Heine

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Eldrige Street shul

Lower East Side

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Dove

Ben Heine

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Two birds

Hoda Jamal

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Israeli and Palestinian boys

from documentary, Promises

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Cat in the Hat

Yiddish version

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Daylight through the Wall

Banksy: graffiti art on Separation Wall

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Maurice Sendak's Brundibar set

New Victory Theater (photo: Nan Melville/NYT)

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Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Palestinian-Israeli musical ensemble (photo: Kerstin Joensson/AP)

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Great Day on Eldrige Street

N.Y.'s klezmer greats celebrate shul rededication (photo: Leo Sorel)

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Joint Appeal for Peace

(Avi Katz)

Joint Appeal for Peace

Ketubah, Ancona, Italy (1772)

(Jewish Theological Seminary library)

Ancona ketubah

Childrearing: From Pathos to Bathos in Seconds Flat

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Jonah holds one of his
favorite foodstuffs

A couple of today’s vignettes from life with Jonah (our 3 year old):

1. Nothing quite brings you down to earth (nor makes you more humble) than cleaning up your son’s throwup which he’s spewed in at least 14 different locations over 100 square feet or more (incuding my own glasses and face!)!! I guess, though, that if I were truly humble I wouldn’t even be telling you about my great sacrifice today for the greater family good. I’d just swallow my gut and go on.

In a way, I don’t deserve too much sympathy because I’m probably the culprit who gave the virus to both him and my wife (who’s sicker than both of us right now).

2. Jonah has a placemat at the dinner table which contains graphic representations of the numerals 1 to 10. At every meal, he points at one or more numbers and asks what it is. Tonight, he pointed at the number 10 and said: “Ut is dat?” (“what is that?”). “Ten,” I answered. Then he giggled: “At two nummahs!” (“That’s two numbers”) Then he really started to chuckle. Imagine my son wondering at the absurd (to a 3 year old) possibility that a single number (10) can consist of two numbers! Should I get ready his application to the Institute for Advanced Study, anyone (just kidding)?

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