.Sheriff of Tel Aviv
Meir Dizengoff didn’t actually found Tel Aviv, but as its first mayor he reigned there supreme, building the first Hebrew-speaking city since the biblical period. And Dizengoff created this “Israeli Riviera” in his own image: bulging, brash, and ambitious // Ilan Shchori
Shul or Show?
With the invention of the phonograph, cantorial pieces once reserved for the synagogue became hit records. But some objected to this use of the “disgraceful shouting machine” and to the cantorial concerts that followed. How technology revolutionized Jewish music – for better or worse // David Olivestone
The Pied Piper of Yom Kippur
Perhaps the most famous of all Hasidic tales, the story of the young shepherd boy and his flute has been told and retold for generations. The version recounted by Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, recast his life’s work to launch the mission of his flock // Levi Cooper
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All in a Name
What role could a Portuguese Jew have played in the English succession and the War of the Roses? The astounding adventures of Edward Brampton, a.k.a. Duarto Bernado, from mariner to noble knight // Haggai Olshanetsky
Tail of a Trail
How did Elijah lose his hand? The travails of the statue of the prophet atop Mount Carmel // Tamar Hayardeni
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A Brief History of Tel Aviv
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Voices of the Past – Salomon Steinberger
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Critics – Irving Berlin’s and Ben Hecht’s Jewish Lives
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Archives – Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz