Harvey E. Goldberg

Sep 30, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Harvey E. Goldberg |Akiva Schick |Shai Secunda |Matti Friedman

Sometime in the late 1970s, I visited Beit Hatfutsot (Museum of the Diaspora, now called Anu—Museum of the Jewish People) in Tel Aviv. One of the exhibits was a diorama of a family scene from early modern central Europe that dramatized the making of a wimpel, an often lavishly decorated linen sash that was wound around a Sefer Torah several times as a binder. The minhag of that time and place was to make it out of the swaddling cloth used for a baby boy during his circumcision.

May 4, 2023 | indybay.org | Harvey E. Goldberg

CUENCA, Ecuador – Unions used annual workers' mobilizations on May 1 to amplify their call for the removal of Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso. Impeachment proceedings against President Lasso on corruption charges have begun in Ecuador's National Assembly. A vote in the National Assembly on whether Lasso should be removed from the Presidency is expected later this month. “Lasso out!” was a chant that rang out as tens of thousands of workers hit the streets in cities across Ecuador.