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Original LinkedIn article on May 5, 2020 here …in the seventh year he shall go free… Shemot/Exodus 21:2 This is the end of my seventh year in the US. It didn’t happen as […]

Original article published on Linkedin on June 5, 2019: Read it here Babylon: Myth and Reality (Nov 13, 2008-Mar 15, 2009) is an exhibition that changed my life – even though

Original article published on Linkedin on March 25, 2020: Read it here Call me crazy, but with all of the uncertainties around the Coronavirus, the thought of being stuck in

In honor of this week’s weekly Torah portion – Shemot – I offer two ideas which can be shared and used in the classroom. The first one – namely the

Original Linkedin post on November 10, 2016 Sometimes the Bible can be misleading. Sometimes.  I would like to discuss an example which demonstrates how a well-documented story, with rich archaeological remains,

On November 19, 2016 Magen David Yeshivah was the first school I have taught and guided in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Followed shortly by Tanach Study on December 4, 2016, these were my two

The combat of wild animals was a dominant and persistent theme throughout ancient Near Eastern art. The lion was a traditional symbol for the deities of war and destruction-and also,

This article is intended to share the sort of work I did with my 5-7th grade students in New Jersey. It combines art, archaeology, grammar, Bible Studies and Jewish History.

וְחֵיל מֶלֶךְ בָּבֶל נִלְחָמִים עַל יְרוּשָׁלַם וְעַל כָּל עָרֵי יְהוּדָה הַנּוֹתָרוֹת אֶל לָכִישׁ וְאֶל עֲזֵקָה כִּי הֵנָּה נִשְׁאֲרוּ בְּעָרֵי יְהוּדָה עָרֵי מִבְצָר ירמיה לד, ז “When the army of the king of Babylon was