Daniel Stein Kokin, at The Blogs

Oct 7, 2024, 12:14 AM

A Mourner’s Kaddish for the Israeli South (Kaddish Yatom la-Darom)

For the “Eileh Ezkerah” section of the Mahzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur that he published in 1972, Rabbi Jules Harlow composed a Kaddish Yatom or Mourner’s Kaddish in which he interspersed the names of Nazi concentration camps and...

Oct 2, 2024, 10:46 PM

What’s in a Date? On Commemorating October 7th (or 22 Tishrei)

As the first anniversary of the Hamas attacks approaches, we are confronted not only by the question of how we should commemorate them, but of when. The date October 7th is of course indelibly etched in our collective consciousness; indeed,...

Jun 25, 2021, 12:10 PM

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Praying for the Arizona monsoon

A burned-out portion of desert along I-17 near Sunset Point, on August 26, 2019 in Mayer, Arizona Around the Southwest, people are longing for seasonal rainstorms. The weather pattern characterized by a shift in wind patterns and moisture being pulled in from the tropical coast of Mexico arrives like clockwork each year. But this summer is different. The Southwest is parched. (AP Photo/Paul Davenport)

When Jewish prayer talks about weather, it's the weather of Israel - and borrowing its motifs to pray for a southwest US wrecked by drought seemed exactly right

May 25, 2017, 9:02 AM

Trump’s push for Middle East peace: déjà vu od pa’am ahat?

BY MOST ACCOUNTS —even those of the “corrupt, disgusting media”—POTUS Donald’s recent Mid-East vaunt was a resounding success. The Israelis are pleased, the Palestinians not too dissatisfied, and the Saudis of course ecstatic—and soon to be armed to the...

About Me

Dr. Daniel Stein Kokin is the Librarian of the Ramaz Upper School in New York City and an adjunct member of the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies faculty at Arizona State University. He has lectured and published widely on both Jewish and Israeli cultural history, and is the creator of the “All the Points” project, which is developing online, interactive maps exploring the settlement history of the Israeli-Palestinian region since the mid nineteenth century.

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