Moshe Maimonides

The Ebenezer Scrooge model: Can Yom Kippur really bring repentance and change?

From Dickens’s Ebenezer Scrooge to modern psychology, the journey from remorse to lasting behavioral change reveals why Yom Kippur can be both a reckoning and a starting point.

YOM KIPPUR asks us to confront who we were, who we have become, and who we might yet become.
The Rambam

A Maimonides statue in Córdoba was defaced. His writings have an answer to hate - opinion

The vandalized statue of the Rambam.

Police investigate swastika graffiti painted over Rambam statue in Cordoba, Spain

A view shows a town nestled in a valley seen near Jerusalem in April in 2026.

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Wine talk: What Bobal & Rambam have in common

Spain does not have many kosher wines, but a new kosher winery, Vina Memorias, is making waves with the relatively unknown bobal grape, and a wine named after Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon.

THE BEAUTIFUL old vines of the Bobal variety, with thick trunks and grotesque shapes of their waving branches

Where our fingers should point this Yom Kippur

On the eve of Yom Kippur, it may be worthwhile to read Maimonides’ analysis of how we can all improve our behavior.

 PAINTING by the Polish artist Maurycy Gottlieb c. 1878, titled ‘Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur.’

Maimonides’ ‘Mishneh Torah’ translated into Russian

The Moscow-based Knizhniki Publishing House, which specializes in Jewish subjects, this summer completed the project that has taken eight years to complete and has cost about $1.5 million.

An illuminated and illuminated Mishneh Torah copied in Spain or Provence in the 14th century at the Israel Museum exhibit, Maimonides: A Legacy in Script, on loan from the National Library, Jerusalem