Tisha B’Av is the most tragic day in the Jewish calendar. There are ten haftarot read during the weeks surrounding Tisha B’Av from the books of Jeremiah and Isaiah, chosen to address this significant day. In this series, we discuss the haftarah texts, the prophets’ lives and art of the haftarot.
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March 09, 2021
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February 21, 2021
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October 27, 2020
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Never Alone: Prisons, Politics and My People
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The Lady of Hebrew and Her Lovers of Zion
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July 08, 2020
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June 25, 2020
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June 28, 2020
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June 21, 2020
From Another Shore: Moshe and Korach Revelation and its Discontents
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June 18, 2020
Jewish Responses to the Plague: Death and Dancing
Hannah Teddy Schachter, Miri Fenton, Dr. Neta Bodner
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Bewilderments: The Spies
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June 10, 2020
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June 07, 2020
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I am a Stranger: Becoming Ruth
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May 19, 2020
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May 19, 2020
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The Enigma of Putin and the Jews
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April 30, 2020
The Flag of Israel
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April 28, 2020
Living with the Holocaust
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April 21, 2020
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Prof. Avigdor Shinan and Meir Shalev - Double holds
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July 03, 2017
The Ba'al Shem Tov Through the Eyes of his Daughter
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January 01, 2019
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The "Other" Exodus
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April 12, 2020
Psalms of the Exodus: Rebuke and Songs of Praise
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April 08, 2020
WhenAlone - Plague of the First Born
Ishai Golan
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April 12, 2020
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April 07, 2020
The Homecoming of Yiddish to Israel
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The Balfour Declaration: the High Point of British Zionism?
Melanie Phillips, Herb Keinon
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September 06, 2017
Musical Life of Jerusalem in Between ottoman and British Empires
Prof. Edwin Seroussi
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December 20, 2016
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March 30, 2020
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March 27, 2020
The Song of the Sea The National Anthem of Israel
Dr. Yael Ziegler
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April 12, 2016
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March 19, 2018
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March 27, 2020
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March 22, 2016
The Book of Exodus Internalizing Knowledge of God
Dr. Yael Ziegler
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March 15, 2016
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September 17, 2013
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December 20, 2016
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March 27, 2018
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March 24, 2020
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Never a Native
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January 15, 2019
Spies of No Country
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August 12, 2019
Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik
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Prof. Daniel R. Schwartz - Maccabees 1 & 2
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The Aleppo Codex | Matti Friedman
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November 21, 2016
Prof. Jonathan Sarna - The Zionism of Louis Brandeis
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May 28, 2017
Exodus: Narrative or Anti-Narrative?
Dr. Avivah Zornberg
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April 13, 2020
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Hebrew Book Printing in the Iberian Peninsula
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Israeli Writer David Grossman: The Plague and The Possibilities
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May 21, 2020
The New Jewish Bookshelf: The Lasting Impact of the Adoption of Arabic
Dr. Miriam Goldstein
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Speaking, Reading and Writing Arabic: A Revolution in Jewish History
Dr. Miriam Goldstein
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How Does it “Read” in Arabic? New Ways to Write about the Bible
Dr. Miriam Goldstein
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August 28, 2022.August 28, 2022
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Developing the Hebrew Print in Italy
Prof. Shimon Iakerson
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July 10, 2022
The Hebrew Book in Europe at the Dawn of Printing
Prof. Shimon Iakerson
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July 03, 2022
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Parshat Vayikra – Guilt, Atonement, Intimacy
Dr. Avivah Zornberg
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Sephardim in Late Ottoman Palestine
Dr. Michal Ben Ya'akov
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The Learned Jews of Ashkenaz
Dr. Katherine Aron-Beller
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A Complicated Jew
Yossi Klein Halevi
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A Complicated Jew
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