Jewish Studies✡

🕎📖Jewish studies (or Judaic studies) is an academic discipline centered on the study of Jews and Judaism.+Retweets are not endorsements.

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

Israel commemorates the 78th anniversary of the #Farhud – the deadly #Nazi-inspired pogrom by Iraqis against #Iraq's🇮🇶 Jewish community.

180 Jews were murdered, over 2,000 were injured & thousands of Jewish homes & businesses were destroyed & looted.

We Remember 🇮🇱🕯️

[National Library of Israel @NLIsrael]

Today #Israel marks #JerusalemDay, a holiday dedicated to the reunification of the city 52 years ago in the Six-Day War.

Though this occasion is celebrated across the country today, the origins of the holiday were more controversial…

https://t.co/hFlqbMHEdd

[National Library of Israel @NLIsrael]

What did #Jerusalem look like 150 years ago?

#JerusalemDay

https://t.co/q3QVcmOPtS

[National Library of Israel @NLIsrael]

Ahead of #YomHaZikaron, #Israel's Remembrance Day, which begins on Tuesday evening,

Read how one mysterious photo led to the discovery of a forgotten soldier's tale: The untold story of Moshe Weizmann, a fallen hero...

https://t.co/j3ikyvGE1w

[National Library of Israel @NLIsrael]

The tragic and heroic story of Zipporah Rosenfeld, who sent her son away to safety, before deciding to stay behind to defend her home…

#YomHaZikaron

https://t.co/ajYL2o6Y71

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

What if Israel let Gaza have an airport, gas field and desalination plant? | Opinion
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[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Nearly 60 years after she attended and wrote about the Eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt remains a controversial figure among intellectuals in Israel
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[StandWithUs @StandWithUs]

Recently, #Israel brought home the body of Sgt. First Class Zachary Baumel, after he went missing in action for 37 years during the first Lebanon war. Over the years, Israel has lost 175 fallen soldiers.

We pray for the safe return home of each & everyone of them.

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

On Thursday we will celebrate 71 years of independence.

This evening & tomorrow we remember those who made it possible - the men & women who have fallen defending 🇮🇱 & those killed in terror attacks since the formation of the State of Israel.

We will always remember them 🇮🇱🕯

[Embassy of Israel to the USA @IsraelinUSA]

23,741 soldiers have died protecting their homes, and 3,150 people have fallen victim to terror seeking to destroy Israel.

On Yom Ha'Zikaron, we remember each and every person who gave their life for Israel. May their memories be a blessing.🕯

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

Last week on Holocaust Memorial Day, we remembered the cost of not having a state.

Today, on Memorial Day for our Fallen Soldiers, we remember the price we pay to have one.

[Jewish Studies✡ @jewishstudies]

In the beginning,
there was lust.

Out of lust, God
emerged in flames.

Lust
is God’s nature.

Everything God creates
is in God’s nature.

Whoever gets more
of God’s nature –

a teardrop more –
becomes an artist, a poet.

One more drop –
a murderer.

(In the Beginning)

[Jewish Studies✡ @jewishstudies]

📌''Yiddish poet Malka Heifetz Tussman seemed to have known a thing or two about lust-a subject she describes in her writings as being a part of God’s very nature.''

[National Library of Israel @NLIsrael]

The American #Yiddish poets of the early 20th century hovered between Torah observance and secularism, and between different social values - with #feminism often playing a major role in their work.

Click below to read the story of Malka Heifetz Tussman
https://t.co/uhgZ68rWdx

[Jewish Studies✡ @jewishstudies]

Malka also seems to have known a thing or two about the lives of those who were given an extra drop of that Godly passion.

[National Library of Israel @NLIsrael]

Today our thoughts are with residents of #Israel's southern communities, targeted since Saturday by hundreds of projectiles fired from #Gaza

This picture was taken in #Ashkelon in 1972, a memory of better days that are hopefully still to come
The Dan Hadani Collection @NLIsrael

[Avi Mayer אבי מאיר @AviMayer]

Palestinians in Gaza cheer and chant "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) as rockets targeting Israeli civilians are launched from nearby.

[Jewish Studies✡ @jewishstudies]

“I hope both sides will take a real look at it, the Israeli side and the Palestinian side, before any unilateral steps are made,” he said. “I hope they will look at it and suss it and see if they do believe that this is a pathway for a better future.”

[Jewish Studies✡ @jewishstudies]

📌Read-Must!
''— Jared Kushner explained why he asked peace negotiators to no longer use the term “two states.”+

[JTA | Jewish news @JTAnews]

"If you say two state, it means one thing to the Israelis and one thing to the Palestinians, so we said let’s just not say it, let’s just work on the details of what it means," Kushner said. https://t.co/MkNIlEZ2vX

[Jewish Studies✡ @jewishstudies]

“If you say two state, it means one thing to the Israelis and one thing to the Palestinians, so we said let’s just not say it, let’s just work on the details of what it means,” he said.+