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Day 40 | Shekalim
What held the Jewish people together when so many lived far from the Land of Israel?
Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich is the Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish Publication Society, Visiting Professor at Yeshiva University’s Revel Graduate School for Jewish Studies, and a Council Member of President Isaac Herzog’s Voice of the People delegation.She is the author of
Letters From Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity (2024),
Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism (2018), and
The Making of Jewish Universalism: From Exile to Alexandria (2016).Simkovich’s articles have been published in journals such as the
Harvard Theological Review,
Sapir, the
Journal for the Study of Judaism, the
Jewish Review of Books,
Tablet, and
Tradition. She is currently working on a book about the concept of divine providence, and speaks regularly to audiences across North America and beyond on topics related to the Tanakh and Jewish history.
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