Анализ сайта southjerusalem.com
Основное Готовность: 40%
Домен
southjerusalem.com
Состояние доменного имени
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Проверяем корректность доменного имени и наличие технических проблем на уровне домена.
Длина домена велика. Но если вы продвигаете запрос, входящий в название домена, то это хорошо.
Домен второго уровня идеален для продвижения.
Ответ сервера
200 Успешный ответ
HTTP-код ответа и цепочка редиректов
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Код 200 — страница доступна. Коды 3xx — редиректы (цепочки замедляют загрузку и размывают ссылочный вес). Коды 4xx/5xx — ошибки, поисковик не сможет проиндексировать страницу.
Кол-во редиректов 3 слишком большое! Проверьте настройки сайта и веб-сервера!
Цепочка редиректов:
http://southjerusalem.com
301 MovedPermanently
https://southjerusalem.com/
307 RedirectKeepVerb
https://haimwatzman.com/
200 OK
Безопасность
Сайт безопасен
Использование HTTPS и SSL-сертификат
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HTTPS — обязательный стандарт. Google и Яндекс отдают предпочтение защищённым сайтам. Отсутствие SSL или просроченный сертификат ведут к предупреждениям в браузере и снижению позиций.
Не настроен HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) — рекомендуется включить.
На сайте работает защищенный протокол ssl и сайт открывается по https.
Ssl-сертификат действителен до 09.01.2027 2:59:59.
Сервер поддерживает HTTP/3 (QUIC) — новейший протокол.
HTTP автоматически перенаправляется на HTTPS.
Поздравляем! Сайт не содержится в реестре РКН.
Кодировка
UTF-8
Кодировка символов страницы
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Стандарт — UTF-8. Неправильная кодировка вызывает нечитаемые символы и мешает поисковику корректно распознать текст страницы.
Указана кодировка на странице UTF-8.
Язык
en-US
Атрибут lang в HTML-теге
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Атрибут lang (<html lang="ru">) сообщает поисковикам и браузерам, на каком языке написана страница. Помогает при ранжировании в региональном поиске.
Язык документа указан явно: en-US.
Скорость загрузки
~0,68сек
Время отклика сервера (TTFB)
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Time To First Byte — время до получения первого байта от сервера. Норма до 200 мс. Медленный отклик ухудшает пользовательский опыт и ранжирование: Яндекс и Google учитывают скорость страниц.
Скорость загрузки сайта 0,68сек оптимальна.
Объем документа
131Кб
Размер HTML-кода страницы
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Слишком большой HTML замедляет парсинг браузером и сканирование поисковым роботом. Рекомендуется не более 200 Кб.
Объем html-документа 131Кб оптимален.
Структура html-документа корректна.
Ресурсы
Ресурсы: 12
Внешние ресурсы страницы (CSS, JS, изображения)
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Количество и тип подключённых ресурсов влияют на скорость загрузки. Большое число запросов увеличивает время рендеринга страницы.
Кол-во файлов ресурсов 12 много для одной страницы. Приемлемо до 10. Проведите оптимизацию файлов ресурсов!
В одном из файлов ресурсов встречается путь без https. Все подгружаемые файлы ресурсов должны открываться по защищенному протоколу ssl/https!
Показать полный список ресурсов
| Тип | Название | Значение |
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| stylesheet | https://haimwatzman.com/wp-includes/css/dist/components/style.min.css?ver=6.8.8 | |
| stylesheet | https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/vendor/wpex/godaddy-launch/includes/Dependencies/GoDaddy/Styles/build/latest.css?ver=2.0.2 | |
| stylesheet | https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/themes/generatepress/assets/css/unsemantic-grid.min.css?ver=3.6.1 | |
| stylesheet | https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/themes/generatepress/assets/css/style.min.css?ver=3.6.1 | |
| stylesheet | https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/themes/generatepress/assets/css/mobile.min.css?ver=3.6.1 | |
| stylesheet | https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/themes/generatepress/assets/css/components/font-icons.min.css?ver=3.6.1 | |
| stylesheet | https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/themes/generatepress/assets/css/components/font-awesome.min.css?ver=4.7 | |
| js | text/javascript | http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js |
| js | text/javascript | http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js |
| js | text/javascript | http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js |
| js | https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/themes/generatepress/assets/js/menu.min.js?ver=3.6.1 |
Серверные заголовки
Кол-во: 15
HTTP-заголовки ответа сервера
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Заголовки сервера передают браузеру и поисковику служебную информацию: кеширование, безопасность (CSP, HSTS), сжатие (gzip). Правильная настройка ускоряет загрузку и повышает защищённость.
Найдены серверные заголовки 15шт. Подробнее про серверные заголовки.
Показать полный список серверных заголовков
| Ключ | Значение |
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| Date | Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:17:34 GMT |
| cf-ray | a2e8e3866818f11e-DME |
| cf-cache-status | HIT |
| Age | 58245 |
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| Link | <https://haimwatzman.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/" |
| Server | cloudflare |
| Vary | Accept-Encoding |
| x-gateway-cache-key | 1787248660.286|standard|https|haimwatzman.com|||/ |
| x-gateway-cache-status | HIT |
| x-gateway-request-id | 9a50d0cd90de75b0c990655537341a48 |
| x-gateway-skip-cache | 0 |
| X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| Alt-Svc | h3=":443" |
CMS
WordPress
Система управления сайтом (движок)
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CMS — это движок, на котором работает сайт (WordPress, 1C-Bitrix, Tilda и др.). Знание CMS помогает понять возможности SEO-оптимизации и подобрать подходящие инструменты. «Не определена» — вероятно, самописный сайт или нестандартная сборка.
Сайт работает на CMS WordPress.
Веб-сервер
Cloudflare
Программное обеспечение сервера
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Веб-сервер — это ПО, которое отдаёт страницы посетителям (nginx, Apache, IIS, LiteSpeed и др.). Определяется по серверным заголовкам ответа (Server, X-Powered-By и т.п.). «Не определён» — сервер намеренно скрывает эти заголовки, это нормальная практика безопасности.
Сайт работает на веб-сервере Cloudflare.
Мета-теги Готовность: 27%
Title
South Jerusalem – A Progressive, Skeptical Blog on Israel, Judaism, Culture, Politics, and Literature
Заголовок страницы в браузере и поисковой выдаче
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Title — главный SEO-заголовок страницы. Влияет на CTR в поиске и ранжирование. Оптимальная длина: 50–70 символов. Ключевые слова — ближе к началу.
Необходимо уменьшить число символов в title (текущее значение: 107, оптимально: от 40 до 45)
Дублей словоформ в title не найдено.
Description
Описание страницы в поисковой выдаче (сниппет)
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Meta Description — текст под заголовком в выдаче. Напрямую на позиции не влияет, но влияет на CTR. Оптимальная длина: 120–160 символов.
Установите мета-тег description!
Keywords
Список ключевых слов страницы (устаревший тег)
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Meta Keywords не учитывается Яндексом и Google для ранжирования с 2009–2012 годов. Заполнение не обязательно, но не вредит. Конкурент может использовать содержимое для анализа.
Установите мета-тег keywords!
Канонический Url
Указывает поисковику основную версию страницы
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Canonical (rel=canonical) предотвращает проблему дублей страниц. Должен точно совпадать с URL проверяемой страницы. Неправильный canonical может передать ссылочный вес на другую страницу.
Рекомендуем прописать канонический Url.
Robots
Есть ошибки
Директивы для поисковых роботов на уровне страницы
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Meta Robots управляет индексацией конкретной страницы: index/noindex — индексировать ли, follow/nofollow — следовать ли по ссылкам. Noindex полностью исключает страницу из поиска.
Meta-тег robots указан, но в нем содержится неизвестное значение...
Адаптивность
width=device-width, initial-scale=1
Настройка масштабирования на мобильных устройствах
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Тег viewport (<meta name="viewport">) сообщает браузеру, как масштабировать страницу на мобильных. Стандарт: width=device-width, initial-scale=1. Отсутствие — признак отсутствия мобильной версии.
Meta-тег viewport со значением-константой width=device-width задаёт ширину страницы в соответствии с размером экрана.
Meta-тег viewport со значением initial-scale=1.0 определяет масштаб 1:1, т.е. «не масштабировать».
Разметка OpenGraph
Не найдено
Мета-теги для красивых превью в соцсетях
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OpenGraph (og:title, og:description, og:image) управляет тем, как страница выглядит при репосте в социальных сетях и мессенджерах. Отсутствие OG-тегов — невзрачный превью при шеринге.
Разметка OpenGraph не задана. Страница не оптимизирована под социальные сети. Мета-теги с разметкой Og помогают социальным роботам лучше структурировать Ваш сайт.
Все мета-теги
Кол-во: 3
Полный список мета-тегов страницы
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Таблица всех meta-тегов, включая нестандартные. Позволяет найти опечатки, дубли и лишние теги.
Найдены мета-теги 3шт. Мета-теги не видимы для человека и предназначены для обмена информацией между веб-страницей и поисковыми системами, браузерами и другими веб-службами. С ними роботы 🤖 и устройства ведут себя более ожидаемо.
Показать полный список мета-тегов
| Тип | Название | Значение |
|---|---|---|
| name | robots | max-image-preview:large |
| name | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| name | generator | WordPress 6.8.8 |
Оптимизация Готовность: 80%
Структура
Ошибок нет
Семантические HTML-элементы страницы
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Проверяет наличие основных структурных элементов: nav, header, footer, main. Корректная семантическая структура помогает поисковику понять архитектуру страницы.
Структура документа корректна (теги <html> и <body> присутствуют в одном экземпляре).
Контент
Ошибок нет
Объём и качество текстового содержимого
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Анализирует объём полезного текста на странице. Слишком мало — страница может считаться малополезной. Слишком много — ухудшается читаемость и восприятие.
Слова из title 13 встречаются в тексте достаточно.
Абзацев с текстом 65 достаточно.
Среднее число слов в абзаце 57 достаточно.
Кол-во знаков контента 22666 на странице оптимально.
Кол-во слов 3957 на странице оптимально.
Заголовки
Ошибок нет
Иерархия заголовков H1–H6
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H1 должен быть один и содержать ключевой запрос. H2–H6 описывают подразделы. Пропуск уровней (H1 → H3) и несколько H1 — типичные ошибки, снижающие понятность страницы для поисковика.
На странице присутствуют заголовки <h1> 1. Это прекрасно.
На странице присутствуют заголовки <h2> 26. Это хорошо.
Тошнота
5,57
Насколько одно слово доминирует в тексте
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Классическая тошнота = √(частота самого повторяющегося слова). Норма до 7–8: текст воспринимается естественно. Выше — поисковик может счесть страницу переспамленной.
Тошнота превышает норму 5. Измените текст страницы!
Академич. тошнота
15,34%
Насколько текст перенасыщен ключевыми словами
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Академическая тошнота = (частота слова / общее количество слов) × 100%. Показывает долю конкретного слова в тексте. Норма 5–15%.
Академическая тошнота превышает норму 5-15%. Измените текст страницы!
Семантическое ядро
20
Наиболее часто встречающиеся слова на странице
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Топ слов по частоте использования. Показывает, какие слова доминируют в тексте с точки зрения поисковика.
Контент страницы содержит осмысленный текст и слова.
Показать список слов
| Слово | Кол-во | Частота |
|---|---|---|
| watzman | 31 | 0,78% |
| pesach | 15 | 0,38% |
| gershom | 13 | 0,33% |
| categories | 12 | 0,30% |
| hebrew | 11 | 0,28% |
| memory | 10 | 0,25% |
| jewish | 10 | 0,25% |
| israel | 9 | 0,23% |
| before | 9 | 0,23% |
| english | 8 | 0,20% |
| appears | 8 | 0,20% |
| theater | 8 | 0,20% |
| jerusalem | 7 | 0,18% |
| translation | 7 | 0,18% |
| original | 7 | 0,18% |
| review | 7 | 0,18% |
| uncategorized | 7 | 0,18% |
| institute | 7 | 0,18% |
| shalom | 6 | 0,15% |
| religious | 6 | 0,15% |
Индексация Готовность: 0%
Индексирование
Есть ошибки
Разрешено ли индексирование страницы
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Проверяет, не закрыта ли страница от индексации через robots.txt, meta robots или X-Robots-Tag. Страница, закрытая от индексации, не появится в поисковой выдаче.
Анкоров на странице 206 слишком много. Проведите ревизию и оптимизацию ссылок сайта.
Robots.txt
Найден корректный robots.txt
Файл управления сканированием сайта роботами
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Robots.txt указывает поисковым роботам, какие страницы сканировать, а какие — нет. Ошибки в файле могут случайно закрыть важные разделы от индексации.
Кол-во редиректов для файла robots.txt 3 слишком большое! Это может вызывать затруднение при индексации поисковыми роботами!
Проверяемая страница не запрещена в robots.txt.
Robots.txt доступен по постоянному адресу
Цепочка редиректов для файла robots.txt:
http://southjerusalem.com/robots.txt
301 MovedPermanently
https://southjerusalem.com/robots.txt
307 RedirectKeepVerb
https://haimwatzman.com/
200 OK
Показать содержимое robots.txt
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<html lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>South Jerusalem – A Progressive, Skeptical Blog on Israel, Judaism, Culture, Politics, and Literature</title>
<meta name='robots' content='max-image-preview:large' />
<style>img:is([sizes="auto" i], [sizes^="auto," i]) { contain-intrinsic-size: 3000px 1500px }</style>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="South Jerusalem » Feed" href="https://haimwatzman.com/feed/" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="South Jerusalem » Comments Feed" href="https://haimwatzman.com/comments/feed/" />
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<em>This is an English translation of my annual dvar Torah for Pesach in memory of my son Niot z”l, whom we lost twelve years ago during Pesach. A pdf file of the Hebrew original, which appears in this week’s issue of “<a HREF="http://ozveshalom.org.il/blog/category/shabath/" TARGET="_blank">Shabbat Shalom</a>,” the weekly Torah sheet published by Oz Veshalom, the religious peace movement, can be downloaded <a HREF="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Shabbat-Shalom-Pesach-2023-גליון-צו-תשפג.pdf" TARGET="_blank">here </a>.</em></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_5750" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-5750" style="width: 290px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/P1010935-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-5750" srcset="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/P1010935-300x225.jpg 300w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/P1010935-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/P1010935-768x576.jpg 768w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/P1010935-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/P1010935-2048x1536.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-5750" class="wp-caption-text">OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA</figcaption></figure>The Pesach Seder can be thought of as a comedy in four acts:<br />
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<b>Act One:</b> A prologue that brings the audience into the play and lays the ground for the way the acts that follow will be experienced.<br />
<b>Act Two:</b> The story of the Exodus from Egypt or, more precisely, a set of stories that touch on the way the story of the Exodus is told—the <em>Maggid</em>.<br />
<b>Act Three: </b> The sacred central ritual of eating the Pesach offering, the required festive meal, and the offering of thanks for the meal with <em>Birkat Hamazon</em>, the grace after the meal, and for the redemption with the psalms of the <em>Hallel</em>.<br />
<b>Act Four:</b> The happy ending, a musical finale that raises the spirits and sends the audience out of the theater with a smile and a bounce in their step.<br />
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The first act is the most unexpected of the four parts. At first glance it looks technical and dry; it seems not to have much to do with what follows. But, in fact, the opposite is true. It is structured around two motifs that are the very essence of the subsequent acts. Without Act One, the two central acts, those of the story of the Exodus and of the eating of the offering, would be understood in an entirely different way.</p>
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<span class="posted-on"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2022-11-22T09:43:02+02:00" itemprop="datePublished">November 22, 2022</time></span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard" itemprop="author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope><a class="url fn n" href="https://haimwatzman.com/author/haim-watzman/" title="View all posts by Haim Watzman" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">Haim Watzman</span></a></span></span> </div>
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<em>The (deliberately) bad sex scenes in four modern Israeli novels reveal writers who play with and subvert expectations and conventions.</em><br />
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<span class="posted-on"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2022-07-26T16:50:11+02:00" itemprop="datePublished">July 26, 2022</time></span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard" itemprop="author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope><a class="url fn n" href="https://haimwatzman.com/author/haim-watzman/" title="View all posts by Haim Watzman" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">Haim Watzman</span></a></span></span> </div>
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<img decoding="async" src="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/1396700_10153506371995022_1568942105_n.jpg" alt="" width="206" height="206" class="alignright size-full wp-image-5714" srcset="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/1396700_10153506371995022_1568942105_n.jpg 206w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/1396700_10153506371995022_1568942105_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/1396700_10153506371995022_1568942105_n-144x144.jpg 144w" sizes="(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px" /><em>This is an English version of the Hebrew dvar Torah that appears in issue 1276 of <a HREF=" https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Shabbat-Shalom-Masei-2022.pdf" TARGET="_blank">“Shabbat Shalom,”</a> the weekly portion sheet published by the religious peace movement Oz Veshalom. It is dedicated to the memory of my father and teacher Sanford “Whitey” Watzman, who left us eight years ago on 2 Av. </em></p>
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The Book of Numbers ends with the appeal of a ruling on an inheritance case: “The family heads in the clan of the descendants of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, one of the Josephite clans, came forward and appealed to Moses and the chieftains, family heads of the Israelites” (Num. 36:1). The original case was heard a few chapters previously:<br />
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<blockquote><p>The daughters of Zelophehad, of Manassite family—son of Hepher son of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh son of Joseph—came forward. The names of the daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. They stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the chieftains, and the whole assembly, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and they said, “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not one of the faction, Korah’s faction, which banded together against the LORD, but died for his own sin; and he has left no sons. Let not our father’s name be lost to his clan just because he had no son! Give us a holding among our father’s kinsmen!” (27:1–4). </p></blockquote>
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When Zelophehad’s daughters brought their case before Moses’s court, he did not know how to rule. So he put their case before God, who instructed him in a revision of the inheritance law—if a father dies and leaves only daughters, they, not the father’s brothers, inherit his estate.<br />
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There is no higher authority than God. What he says is law. If that is the case, how dare the family heads appeal the ruling? And why would Moses agree to hear their petition?</p>
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<span class="posted-on"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2022-05-03T12:15:32+02:00" itemprop="datePublished">May 3, 2022</time></span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard" itemprop="author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope><a class="url fn n" href="https://haimwatzman.com/author/haim-watzman/" title="View all posts by Haim Watzman" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">Haim Watzman</span></a></span></span> </div>
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<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_0516-e1427828627738-168x300.jpg" alt="" width="168" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4378" srcset="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_0516-e1427828627738-168x300.jpg 168w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_0516-e1427828627738-573x1024.jpg 573w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_0516-e1427828627738-900x1607.jpg 900w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_0516-e1427828627738.jpg 1734w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px" />The lupines on the two sides of the barely discernable path are darker than the ones I remember from last year, perhaps because a small cloud his blocking the sun’s rays, or because rain and chill winds prevented us from getting here on recent Saturdays, causing us to miss the blooms at their height. Or perhaps the reason is that the approaching Pesach holiday brings us closer to the season of our inner darkness, the affliction of losing our son <a HREF="https://haimwatzman.substack.com/p/on-the-watershed-line-?r=1egidy&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web"TARGET="_blank">read the rest (in English or in Hebrew) on Substack</a> </p>
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<span class="posted-on"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2022-04-10T18:20:30+02:00" itemprop="datePublished">April 10, 2022</time></span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard" itemprop="author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope><a class="url fn n" href="https://haimwatzman.com/author/haim-watzman/" title="View all posts by Haim Watzman" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">Haim Watzman</span></a></span></span> </div>
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<p><em>This is a Hebrew translation of my annual dvar Torah for Pesach in memory of my son Niot z”l, whom we lost eleven years ago during Pesach. A pdf file of the Hebrew original, which appears in this week’s issue of <a HREF="http://ozveshalom.org.il/blog/category/shabath/" TARGET="_blank">“Shabbat Shalom,”</a> the weekly Torah sheet published by Oz Veshalom, the religious peace movement, can be downloaded <a HREF="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Shabbat-Shalom-Pesach-2022-תשפב.pdf" TARGET="_blank">here</a>.</em></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DSCF4524-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-5692" srcset="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DSCF4524-300x225.jpg 300w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DSCF4524-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DSCF4524-768x576.jpg 768w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DSCF4524-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DSCF4524-2048x1536.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Nothing is more present than an absence. In an event, as in a story, that which is not stated explicitly, and the person who does not speak, are sometimes the most important. This truth stands out in our family on Pesach. This year we will gather for our Seder for the eleventh time without our son and brother Niot, who left us after the first day of Pesach and never returned.<br />
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Toward the end of Chapter 4 of the Pesahim tractate of the Babylonian Talmud (54b), the rabbis adduce a puzzling <em>bereita</em> that seems unconnected to the surrounding material. The chapter’s central subject is the differing customs regarding the time of the Pesach sacrifice and other tasks that need to be accomplished on 14 Nisan, before the Seder that evening. The <em>bereita</em> states:<br />
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<blockquote><p>The Sages taught: Seven matters are concealed from people, and they are: [The] day of death; and the day of consolation; the profundity of justice; and a person does not know what is in the heart of another; and a person does not know in what [way] he will earn a profit; [and] when the monarchy of the house of David will be restored; and when the wicked monarchy will cease. </p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>“The Theater Institute Award for Haim Watzman’s drama The Chair<em> for: an intimate yet universal capture of Israel’s multicultural contemporary society; for showing invariably important and at the same time fundamental human problems, both in history and today. For boldly taking into account the importance of religious tradition, for noticing the role of women in history, tradition, and contemporary times, and for a well-thought-out composition of real and metaphorical space.”</p>
<p>— statement by Jadwiga Majewska of the Theater Institute (Instytut Teatralny im. Zbigniewa Raszewskiego) of Poland on my play, at the awards ceremony </em></p></blockquote>
<p><em>My acceptance speech, which I was unable to give in person at the ceremony in Warsaw on January 16.</em></p>
<p>It is a great honor to have my play <em>The Chair</em> recognized with the <a HREF="http://teatr-zydowski.art.pl/en/jewish-drama-competition" TARGET="_blank">Theater Institute Award</a> of the Contemporary Jewish Drama International Competition sponsored by the Estera Rachel and Ida Makinskie Jewish Theater in Warsaw. When I received the news last week I was so flabbergasted that I was sure that it must be a mistake. I felt like one of the Hebrew prophets receiving a vision from God and being totally clueless, just as Isaiah and Jeremiah were, about why they had been chosen.<br />
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<figure id="attachment_5276" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-5276" style="width: 290px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Avi-Katz-The-Chair-300x188.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="188" class="size-medium wp-image-5276" srcset="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Avi-Katz-The-Chair-300x188.jpg 300w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Avi-Katz-The-Chair-768x480.jpg 768w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Avi-Katz-The-Chair-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Avi-Katz-The-Chair.jpg 1600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-5276" class="wp-caption-text">Illustration by Avi Katz</figcaption></figure>That is very appropriate because <em>The Chair</em> is a melancholy comedy about a woman who receives a prophetic vision, not from heaven but from the neighbors she sees from her bedroom window. After escaping from an oppressive relationship with a man who loves her because she represents the oppressed workers he has devoted his life to saving, she wants only to be alone and never to love again. But the vision, not a divine but rather a very earthly and material one, finds the love that remains hidden deep within her. Her story parallels that of the biblical prophet Hosea, except that she plays the role not of Hosea but of Gomer, the low woman the prophet marries at God’s command and uses as a symbol of the sins of Israel.</p>
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<span class="posted-on"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2021-09-22T08:45:27+02:00" itemprop="datePublished">September 22, 2021</time></span> <span class="byline">by <span class="author vcard" itemprop="author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope><a class="url fn n" href="https://haimwatzman.com/author/haim-watzman/" title="View all posts by Haim Watzman" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">Haim Watzman</span></a></span></span> </div>
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<em>An English translation of a drasha given at Kehilat Yedidya on Sukkot 2021</em><br />
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<a HREF="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/דבר-תורה-סוכות-תשפב.pdf" TARGET="_blank">הדרשה בעברית</a><br />
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<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/download.jpg" alt="" width="275" height="183" class="alignright size-full wp-image-5648" />I’ll begin with a story. Actually, I’ll begin with the same story that Pinchas Leiser told on Rosh Hashanah. His story was about the way the great Hasid Rabbi Levi-Yitzhak of Berditchev chose a shofar blower one year. There were three candidates and Rabbi Levi-Yitzhak interrogated them about the <em>kavanot</em>—the intentions they had—when they blew the shofar. The first said that his intention was to confuse Satan. The second said that his intention was to rouse the higher spheres to have mercy on the Jewish people. The third said simply that he had ten hungry children at home. The rabbi from Berditchev chose the third one.<br />
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Pinchas interpreted the story in the standard way. When he blew the shofar, the third candidate focused his intentions on his ten hungry children. But the story can be understood differently. It could be that the third candidate meant that he did not have any intention at all when he blew the shofar. He had other things to worry about. So he simply blew.</p>
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<p>Haim Watzman Dear readers, It’s a month of opportunities to hear me talk about translation and writing, two in Zoom and in English and one in person and in Hebrew. “Translating in Nabokov’s Shadow” is the third installment in a wonderful series on translation sponsored by the Tel Aviv Review of Books and the National … <a title="August Appearances" class="read-more" href="https://haimwatzman.com/2021/08/august-appearances/" aria-label="Read more about August Appearances">Read more</a></p>
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<p>The rock had a red stripe on the south side and a blue stripe on the north side. But they were fresh and bright, painted not long ago, so they couldn’t be the same ones he remembered from thirty-odd years before. Perhaps it wasn’t even the same rock. Yet the parting of the paths was the same parting, here on the trail that ran a short way up the slope from the channel below. The waters of early winter rains ran swiftly and noisily in the bed that had awaited them all summer. A breeze from the west wafted the mist, drawn from the water by the first rays of the rising sun, up the slope to chill his cheeks, and the steel pressing at his waist. </p>
<p>He stopped, breathing harder than he had that other morning so many years ago. Glancing back, he could see before him new neighborhoods on the surrounding ridges, which then had been crowned with trees and lined with venerable terraces. Jerusalem had encroached on its enveloping forest, but he could see that only if he faced what he knew. If he turned to the unknown behind him, as he had resolved to do when he woke in the dark an hour earlier, he could see only the grove close around him, the oak to his left below, the olive to his right above, and the spreading branches of the carob tree, weighted down with fruit, obscuring the trail marker below to anyone who did not seek it. And now, looking again, he made her out. It was not a dream or a vision. She stood there, where he had seen her decades before, where perhaps she had been stationed at the dawn of time. The green woman.<a HREF="https://jerusalism.com/2021/07/11/the-green-woman/" TARGET="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">… continue reading at <em>Halah</em></a></p>
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<em>This is an English version of the dvar Torah that appears in issue 1208 of <a HREF=" http://ozveshalom.org.il/blog/category/shabath/" TARGET="_blank">“Shabbat Shalom,”</a> the weekly portion sheet published by the religious peace movement Oz Veshalom. It is dedicated to the memory of my father and teacher Sanford “Whitey” Watzman, who left us seven years ago on 2 Av. </em><br />
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<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/08601_29-201x300.jpg" alt="" width="201" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4497" srcset="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/08601_29-201x300.jpg 201w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/08601_29-686x1024.jpg 686w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/08601_29-900x1343.jpg 900w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/08601_29.jpg 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px" />Many years ago, when I worked as a journalist, I attended a press conference at a conservative research institute in Jerusalem. I don’t recall exactly what the subject was, but I do remember that the institute’s director, who had served in an elite unit in the US Army, claimed that he could prove scientifically that the State of Israel had been in the right in a recent military action that had been loudly criticized by the rest of the world. After I and several other reporters settled ourselves in the small meeting room, he rose to speak. “I’ll start with the creation of the world,” he began. Realizing that the press conference would be very long and grueling. I mumbled an excuse of some sort, got up, and left.<br />
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The choice of the right starting point is part of the art of storytelling. Tracing the sequence of causes that led to any given event will always lead to the creation of the world, given that, at least according to the modern scientific view, every event is the consequence of a previous event, going back to the dawn of time. But it’s not only that beginning every story at the creation is tiring. It’s simply wrong, both literarily and in principle. Because the place where the story begins needs to foreshadow the end that the storyteller wants to arrive at.</p>
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<p><em>Niot was a soldier in the Golani Brigade when he died in a diving accident ten years ago. The piece appears in the Jewish Review of Books for Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day.</em></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_3421" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3421" style="width: 290px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Avi-Katz-Other-Nights-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-3421" srcset="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Avi-Katz-Other-Nights-300x300.jpg 300w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Avi-Katz-Other-Nights-150x150.jpg 150w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Avi-Katz-Other-Nights.jpg 800w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3421" class="wp-caption-text">illustration by Avi Katz</figcaption></figure>The fog that surrounds me all year grows heavier in the month of Tevet. By Pesach, I can no longer see. It dissipates some after Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, but a cloud remains. Only my wife, Ilana, understands my half-blind groping. For she, too, lives in the fog.</p>
<p>The ninth day of Tevet this year would have been Niot’s 30th birthday. We lost him when he was 20; our last night with him was the Seder. The fog descended three days later, on Friday morning, a day after his diving accident in Eilat, when the doctors at the hospital told us that we had lost him. On Shabbat, his death was officially certified, and we signed the documents to allow his organs to be donated. His funeral took place on Sunday, early afternoon, the eve of the last day of the holiday. When he died, he was a soldier, so two weeks later we found ourselves again at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl, marking our first Yom HaZikaron as bereaved parents. <a HREF="https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/contemporary-israel/10451/fog/" TARGET="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">… continue reading at <em>The Jewish Review of Books</em></a></p>
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<p><em>This is a Hebrew translation of my annual dvar Torah for Pesach in memory of my son Niot z”l, whom we lost ten years ago during Pesach. A pdf file of the Hebrew original, which appears in this week’s issue of <a HREF="http://ozveshalom.org.il/blog/category/shabath/" TARGET="_blank">“Shabbat Shalom,”</a> the weekly Torah sheet published by Oz Veshalom, the religious peace movement, can be downloaded <a HREF="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Shabbat-Shalom-Pesach-2021-תשפא.pdf" TARGET="_blank">here</a>.</em></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Niot-snarfs-a-bagel-2007-300x195.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="195" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-5604" srcset="https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Niot-snarfs-a-bagel-2007-300x195.jpg 300w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Niot-snarfs-a-bagel-2007-1024x665.jpg 1024w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Niot-snarfs-a-bagel-2007-768x499.jpg 768w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Niot-snarfs-a-bagel-2007-1536x998.jpg 1536w, https://haimwatzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Niot-snarfs-a-bagel-2007-2048x1330.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />At the beginning of the Seder, before we begin the <em>magid</em>, the telling of the story of the exodus from Egypt, we perform a ritual called <em>yahatz</em>. We break, according to most customs, the middle of the three matzot that we have placed on the table along with the other signs of the holiday. We set the larger piece aside or conceal it so that it will serve after the meal as the afikoman.<br />
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At the end of the <em>magid</em> we make two blessings on the matzot that remain on the table—the two whole ones and the piece that remains of the middle one. According to one opinion (as in, for example, the commentary on the Haggadah of Rabbi Yitzhak Mirsky), the two blessings are intended for different combinations of these matzot. The <em>hamotzi</em> blessing, the one we use all year before eating bread and which on Shabbatot and holidays we make over two loaves, as part of the happiness of the occasion, is the blessing over the two whole matzot. The second blessing, <em>al ahilat matzah</em>, specific to the fulfilment of the command to eat matzah on the Seder night, is directed at one whole matzah and the broken matzah. The broken one represents the concept of <em>lehem oni</em>, usually translated into English as “the bread of affliction.”</p>
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<li><a href="http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=how_to_open_the_road" title="Death of the Comrade, and of the Party" target="_blank">American Prospect: Foiled State</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22701" title="On 1948, Benny Morris and writing Israeli history">New York Review of Books: The War to Begin All Wars</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/magazine/02jewishness-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin" target="_blank">NY Times: How Do You Prove You’re a Jew?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/05/the-minister-for-national-fears/5775/" title="Profile of Avigdor Lieberman." target="_blank">The Minister for National Fears</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/329fvswo.asp" target="_blank">The Missing Mahatma: Searching for a Gandhi in the West Bank.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/a-palestinian-enigma" target="_blank">The National, Abu Dhabi: Khalid Mishal, A Palestinian Enigma</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.southjerusalem.com/haim-watzman/a-crack-in-the-earth/" target="_blank">Haim Watzman: A Crack in the Earth</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Special-Reports/Inside-Israel/Podcast" title="Haim talks about Israeli democracy, Judaism, and the South Jerusalem blog" target="_blank">Haim on the International Relations and Security Network podcast</a></li>
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Gershom Gorenberg – The Unmaking of Israel (How It Broke. How to Fix It.)
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Starting at the End / Dvar Torah, Parshat Devarim
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Fog — A Meditation on the Loss of My Son Niot in the Jewish Review of Books
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