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Travel Topics -TiM Torah from the Tours

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Program
Nov 5, 2024

e-TiM: Musings from Spain

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Program
Aug 6, 2024

Spanish Torah: The Rambam and the Ramban

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Audio
Aug 4, 2024

From Bratislava to Nikolsburg

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The relationship between modernity and Judaism is perhaps the central question that Jews have struggled with and debated over the past 250 years. Travelling through Central Europe, one visits the places where the leaders of two diametrically…
Article
Jul 24, 2024

Shabbat in Budapest

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Kazinczy, Dohany, Rumbach. For the average Hungarian these are street names in the heart of Budapest. For Jews these are names of three of the most important synagogues in Budapest, the custom in much of Europe being that the shuls get their names…
Article
Jul 19, 2024

Thoughts From Budapest: Past, Present, and Future

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Jews first settled in Hungary in the 13th century, settling mainly in the city of Buda. In 1526 the Ottoman Empire occupied Hungary and as result many Jews moved from other parts of the empire to Hungary. Thus, Buda was one of the very few places…
Article
Jul 17, 2024

Torah in Toledo

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The city of Toledo sits some 75 kilometres to the south of Madrid, the capital of Spain. It is a most picturesque and charming city, perched on a mountain and surrounded by the Tagus river. Its towering walls were first build by the Romans – almost…
Article
Jul 16, 2024

The Expulsion

Rabbi Jay Kelman

If 1148 marks the end of the Golden Age of Spain, the beginning of the end of Spanish Jewry as a whole begins in 1391. By that time the Christians had re-conquered much of Spain, a process that began soon after the Muslim conquest and was completed…
Article
Jul 16, 2024

Some Thoughts From Spain

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Jews lived in Spain for a very, very long time, possibly from as early as Biblical times. The first recorded evidence of Jewish life in Spain dates from the Roman period where Jews were a tolerated minority. Jewish life took a turn for the worse in…
Article
Jul 11, 2024

Humbling History

Rabbi Jay Kelman

I have long had an interest in Jewish history, finding it inspiring and illuminating to be part of a people who go back 4,000 years, who have lived in the four corners of the globe, in periods of great glory and terrible suffering. It is humbling,…
Article
Jul 29, 2022