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Ben Zion Ferziger

Jun 9, 2020, 7:32 AM

How traveling makes us Israeli: 11 Hebrew songs in honor of a domestic summer

“How shall we sing… in a foreign land?” This Yom Haatzmaut, Yossi Klein Halevi shared with us a remarkable Shir Hamaalot of his own making: a tapestry of Israel through its music. In the spirit of his hero Meir Ariel...

May 27, 2020, 1:02 AM

Matan Torah in the Australian Outback: A Modern Midrash

"And they stood at the bottom of the mountain." (Exodus 19:17) "This teaches that the Blessed Holy One held the mountain over them like a tub." (Shabbat 88a) I imagine the Torah being given in the Australian outback, at the foot...

May 11, 2020, 4:20 PM

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The experimental spirit of Hatikvah and The New Colossus

Naftali Herz Imber (1806-1909), who wrote the lyrics to Hatikva, L, and Emma Lazarus (1849-1887), author of The New Colossus.

These two iconic texts offer contrasting blueprints for Jewish life, but the twists and turns of their authors' lives prove nothing is set in stone

About Me

Ben Zion Ferziger is an Israeli attorney living and working in NYC, and a member of Shazur/Interwoven (https://shazur.org/), a nonprofit dedicated to fostering appreciation and collaboration between the Israeli and American Jewish communities. Ben Zion taught in Sydney, Australia for a year in 2011-2012.