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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 618

Maimonides

Rachel Neiman, a spokesperson at the National Library of Israel, examines a 15th-century manuscript featuring Mezukak Shivatayim ('Distilled Sevenfold'), a previously lost commentary on Maimonines’s Misheh Torah is on display at the National Library of Israel in February 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
February 27, 2025, 11:10 am
Lost & found: Early commentary on Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah on display in Jerusalem
Now housed at the National Library, 15th-cent. Mezukak Shivatayim extensively quotes Jewish sages whose works are unknown to scholars, opening the way to recover thinkers’ lost wisdom
By Rossella Tercatin
Vice President Kamala Harris, right, holds a ceremonial swearing-in for Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, joined by his wife Eve M. Schiff, center, at the Capitol in Washington, December 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
December 10, 2024, 5:31 am
Adam Schiff sworn into Senate on 1490 edition of Maimonides’ legal code
Spokeswoman for California Democrat says he chose volume in part due to concerns about state of the rule of law as Trump returns to the White House
By Ron Kampeas
Ron Kobi, holding cellphone, visits a balloting station in Tiberias on February 27, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
February 28, 2024, 2:59 am
In Tiberias, Haredi locals cheer for defeat of their secularist nemesis’s comeback bid
Exit polls indicate former mayor Ron Kobi lost race to candidate endorsed by influential ultra-Orthodox rabbis, in microcosm of Israel’s religious-secular divisions
By Canaan Lidor
Ron Cobi, a former mayor of Tiberias and a candidate for the job, stands atop a hill overlooking his city in Israel on August 22, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
September 20, 2023, 10:42 am
Local elections turn placid Tiberias into unlikely front in Israel’s societal clash
Haredi and secularist extremism, as well as the alleged involvement of a former politician with a criminal record, are muddying the lakeside city’s political waters
By Canaan Lidor
Clockwise from left: Arthur Szyk, Maimonides, New Canaan,1950, Watercolor and gouache on paper. (Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, gift of Louis Werner); Moses Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah, Egypt, after 1168. (The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford); Guide of the Perplexed, Barcelona, 1347 or 1348, by Moses Maimonides. (The Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen/ all images from the Yeshiva University Museum exhibition 'The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries')
May 23, 2023, 4:00 am
Legacy of 12th-century rabbi, doctor and thinker Moses Maimonides on display in NY
‘The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries,’ a Yeshiva University exhibit, shows the far-reaching impact of one of the Middle Age’s most prolific Torah scholars
By Cathryn J. Prince
Part of the handwritten list of words attributed to Maimonides from the Cambridge University Genizah Research Unit. (courtesy Cambridge University/José Martínez Delgado)
May 19, 2023, 4:36 pm
Mysterious trilingual Cairo Geniza vocab list found to be penned by Maimonides
Housed at Cambridge University’s Genizah Research Unit, crib sheet with words in Hebrew, Arabic and a Romance dialect gives a glimpse into renowned philosopher’s method of thinking
By Melanie Lidman
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (Sally Blood)
September 25, 2022, 8:21 pm
In age of #MeToo and cancel culture, medieval philosopher’s ideas can heal wounds
In her new book, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg illustrates how Maimonides’s five steps for repentance can fix the serious harm done by individuals and institutions in contemporary America
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Political commentator Amit Segal, left, raises a copy of Maimonides' 'Hilchot Talmud Torah' during an interview with United Torah Judaism leader Moshe Gafni, right, as his co-host Ben Caspit smiles, on Channel 12's 'Meet the Press' on September 17, 2022. (Screen capture)
September 18, 2022, 9:11 pm
Haredi MK finds himself debating Maimonides in TV interview
A Channel 12 host asks Moshe Gafni to answer criticism by supposed political rival of Haredi men eschewing work, only to reveal the source as medieval Torah scholar Rambam
By Judah Ari Gross
Moshe Nissim arrives at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 1, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 3, 2021, 4:06 pm
Orthodox rabbis today 100 times more stringent than Maimonides — ex-minister
Moshe Nissim, who proposed conversion reform, blames Chief Rabbinate and Haredi parties for High Court recognition of Reform and Conservative conversions done in Israel
By ToI Staff
Maimonides marble bas-relief in the chamber of the US House of Representatives in the United States Capitol (Public Domain)
September 3, 2019, 6:43 am
Maimonides’ ‘Mishneh Torah’ translated into Russian
Philosopher rabbi’s magnum opus published by Moscow-based Knizhniki Publishing House, after eight years of work and at a cost of about $1.5 million
By JTA
Illustrative image of food. (Lisovskaya; iStock by Getty Images)
September 17, 2018, 2:55 pm
New Israel foodtech fund joins with Cornell to dish out healthier meals
Medstrada VC fund aims to invest in food technology startups in Israel, Europe and the US; CEO wants to employ food in the service of better health, as did the doctors of yore
By Shoshanna Solomon
Harvey M. Lederman
July 6, 2018, 6:40 pm
Harvey M. Lederman
The Jewish angle for this triathlete
If my motivation flags, I think of Maimonides and his scorn for those who don’t exercise
Ariel Sharon, second from right, as commander of an armored division in the Sinai during the Six Day War (Courtesy Israel Defense Force Archive)
January 25, 2018, 12:10 pm
Shooting down planes, shooting down deals — or not
Those who stopped Ariel Sharon from downing a passenger jet are hailed, and papers survey the PM’s blitz against the Iran deal and a ‘nonexistent’ migrant pact with Rwanda
By Joshua Davidovich
Ari Shishler
December 29, 2017, 4:27 pm
Ari Shishler
‘Rage Rooms’ are, well, all the rage
It turns out that you’re not doing anyone any favors when you encourage ‘getting your aggression out’
A child’s alphabet and doodles, circa 1000 years old, from the Cairo Geniza, part of the Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo exhibit on display from April 27, 2017 (Cambridge University)
April 27, 2017, 11:48 pm
Sex and business among medieval Cairo’s Jews go on display at Cambridge
New exhibit showcases dozens of fragments, some newly translated, that tell the story of ordinary folks living under Islam in the Middle Ages
By Ilan Ben Zion
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