When you think of the word "sacrifice," names like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Bhagat Singh and Mother Teresa likely come to mind. Great leaders who sacrificed their lives for the greater ...
In 1985 and 86, as 54-year-old filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky was dying of lung cancer, he managed to complete The Sacrifice, one of his finest works. Tarkovsky’s career began in his home country, the ...
This week, the annual Jewish Torah reading cycle brings us to the book of Vayikra, or Leviticus. Many see this as the “plotless” part of the Torah, detailing sacrifices and many other laws that do not ...