This Thursday, Tisha b’Av, as we sit on the floor lamenting the destruction of the Temples[1], we will read the kinnah, “Sha’alei Serufah baAish, Ask…
Ponderings from Paris: Talmud in Troyes
Few people who visit France visit Troyes, a city of fewer than 100,000 people, located some 90 miles southeast of Paris. In medieval times the city…
Ponderings from Paris: A Modern Day Sanhedrin
The emancipation of the Jewish people in Europe – begun in France in 1791 – brought to the fore a question, perhaps the question Jews have been…
Ponderings from Paris: A Shabbat Light
The City of Lights. Paris gets its moniker due to its being amongst the first cities to use gas street lamps and due to its being a centre of…