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“I’m not materialistic, but I believe in the power of things to evoke people, places, days of one’s life.” These words inspired us to launch the Jewish Objects Project, where we asked Moment readers to share photos and stories of things that inspire meaning and memories of their own. Below is a collection of some of our favorites.
“I dreamed of certain outcomes. But it’s the ones I didn’t see coming that feel exactly right—beshert.”
Israel was one of the first countries to respond quickly and sternly to the pandemic. Internationally, it was one of the first countries to shut ourselves off from the rest of the world. Foreigners are almost completely forbidden from entering the country and there are almost no flights in or out. International conferences and gatherings have been cancelled.
Sharansky, the refusnik who spent nine years in a Soviet prison, gives advice for those facing self-quarantine.
“I don’t think that the President is directly responsible for anti-Semitism. I really don’t. I think that certain things he does allows the far right to act with impunity.”
The Passover Haggadah could hardly be more different from the Torah. A Torah scroll is housed in a synagogue.
Conservative rabbi Amy Levin always makes lentil soup on Passover—but never in her grandmother’s pots.
I’ve written the soup, the parting of the sea, the savage plagues and the candles
