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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

Pirkei Avot

Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks at a campaign event, April 16, 2024, in Scranton, PA. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
August 6, 2024, 11:00 pm
‘Work far from finished’: Shapiro invokes ancient rabbi as Harris picks Walz for VP
Rumored frontrunner for Harris’s 2024 running partner says he will now continue to pursue work left to do as governor of Pennsylvania
By Ben Sales
Shaina Taub accepts the Best Original Score award for "Suffs" onstage during The 77th Annual Tony Awards at David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, June 16, 2024 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions via JTA)
June 17, 2024, 5:10 pm
‘Suffs’ creator cites Jewish text Pirkei Avot in Tony Awards acceptance speech
Shaina Taub says Talmudic quote ‘You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it’ grounded her while she wrote her award-winning Broadway show
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Eric Lander, the incoming director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, participates in a swearing-in ceremony with US Vice President Kamala Harris in her ceremonial office, as his wife Lori Lander holds a 13-page fragment of a Pirkei Avot text from 1492 in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on June 2, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)
June 3, 2021, 6:35 am
Biden science adviser takes oath on 500-year-old Jewish text
Eric Lander becomes 1st cabinet-level official to receive post using 1492 Pirkei Avot — a Mishnaic compendium of Jewish precepts — published in Naples by Jews fleeing Inquisition
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Idit Kischinovsky, one of 48 artists who participated in Jerusalem gallery Kol HaOt's Creative Quarantine project, launched in January 2021, during Israel's third lockdown (Courtesy Yaal Herman, yaalherman.com)
March 31, 2021, 9:57 pm
Confined to ‘creative quarantine,’ artists transform rabbinic wisdom into art
Jerusalem gallery Kol HaOt challenged 48 artists of all stripes to create new artwork while sequestered for 48 hours in their formerly bereft space
By Jessica Steinberg
Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner attend the 'Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology' Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, May 2, 2016. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for People.com, via JTA)
September 11, 2016, 7:31 pm
Ivanka Trump quotes Hillel, cites Emma Watson
In Instagram post, Republican nominee’s daughter, an Orthodox Jew, attributes mishnaic statement to Harry Potter star
By ToI Staff
Natan Odenheimer
November 29, 2012, 5:52 pm
Natan Odenheimer
Our disputes must be ‘for the sake of heaven’
By changing Israel-related discourse from polarizing to unifying, we are bringing a new way to engage with Israel.
President Ronald Reagan, pictured with wife Nancy at his 1981 inauguration, is credited in a draft of the Republican Party platform as the source of a quotation by Rabbi Hillel. (Photo credit: From http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AThe_Reagans_waving_from_the_limousine_during_the_Inaugural_Parade_1981.jpg)
August 22, 2012, 7:22 pm
Who said it — Reagan or Hillel?
Draft of the Republican Party platform mixes up the source of an ancient Jewish saying
By Nathan Burstein
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