Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel, at The Blogs

Dec 1, 2023, 7:35 PM

Cows are undoubtedly the national emblematic animals in Israel, the nourishing milky Israeli cow. One of the most conflicting issues we face today is « food » and how to eat properly, decently, and with measures, to avoid growing...

Nov 14, 2023, 3:23 AM

To stand fast, resist and exist

A special "tseytl-lider\צעטל-לידער" Yiddish poem that I wrote these days because of what has happened in the Darom, in South Negev, Israel. I don't call that a "pogrom", I really think and say this and have been teaching/uttered in...

Oct 30, 2023, 10:55 PM

Beyond the pogroms

On October 7th, I wrote that the "Shoah" is over - though not the Churb'n/חורבן /destruction, used in Yiddish/ (this is felt in Israel pretty much in certain milieus) and that new times commence: we have to find new...

Oct 27, 2023, 6:35 PM

Who will remain?

A lot of observers, specialists, whizzes, and correspondents comment these days the Hamas's chart and reflect on its true contents. How to understand what the real goals of Hamas are as regards the Jewish People and Israel? Some refer...

Sep 21, 2023, 6:33 AM

Who, what, sex, flesh, mind and spirit

In a sort of real and unconditional opposition to Christianity (I would not deal with Islam which seemingly can be much closer to Judaism but in harsh conflicts with it), Judaism has a natural, evident link, connectedness, and concern...

Sep 8, 2023, 3:33 PM

Animals and wisdom of creation

In these days of terrible heat and climatic changes, pressures, of war situations (Ukraine, Syria, on the borders of Israel and so many other places)... we may feel a sort of natural compassion for animals. Jerusalem is full of...

Sep 2, 2023, 1:23 AM

Are We All Friends?

We really want, often are pleased to socialize with others. Nothing pathetically or gorgeously new. Just humans trying to meet, talk, "paltalk", "messengerize" through wireless connections, the multi-faceted present-day online tools or letters or... who knows how we succeed...

Aug 25, 2023, 8:24 PM

Jealousy or survival

There is an in-depth, permanent relational question that we face at times or constantly. It depends upon how we cope with the people whom we have to meet, to work with, to socialize. In the parashah-reading portion - Vayyeshev/...

Aug 18, 2023, 5:52 AM

The feast of Transfiguration and Faces

The Сhristian Orthodox Churches celebrated Prophet Elijah on August 2 according to the Julian calendar. The next day, they commemorated Prophet Ezekiel. We are in a time that unfolds pages and pages of the wide scroll of destiny: a)...

Aug 14, 2023, 8:51 PM

The maccabees and the summer saints

The City of Jerusalem, photo Alexander Winogradsky Frenkel

In midsummer, the Orthodox Churches commemorate the Holy Maccabees who fought and sacrificed their lives to resist the idolatrous and pagan pressure of the Greeks who wanted to impose their pagan rules and ways of life (non-Christians, this happened...

About Me

Alexander is a psycho-linguist specializing in bi-multi-linguistics and Yiddish. He is a Talmudist, comparative theologian, and logotherapist. He is a professor of Compared Judaism and Christian heritages, Archpriest of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, and International Counselor.

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