32My Son the Pirate // Yoav Pulver
Few rabbis have lived a life as colorful as Samuel Pallache. Merchant, diplomat, and emissary to the king of Morocco, Pallache even resorted to piracy to exact his people’s revenge on the Spanish fleet
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A Beautiful Mind // Yemima Hovav
Actress Hedy Lamarr may have owed her fame to “standing still and looking stupid,” but she was anything but. This assimilated Jewess combined aspects of her colorful past to patent something that could have torpedoed the Nazi threat to Allied ships – if the U.S. Navy had only seen fit to use it
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A Dig Full of Holes // Sara Jo Ben Zvi
Has the Maresha excavation unearthed a pile of junk or the key to a Judea much more diverse than we’d supposed? The best thing is, you can find out for yourself
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Fundamentally Extreme // Tehila Bigman
In recent years, the very name IS has evoked fear, revulsion, and even panic in the West. The answer is to know one’s enemy – where the movement sprang from and where it diverges from mainstream Islam
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Book Review
The Lost Book of Moses, Chanan Tigay // Elka Weber
Tracking the “Lost Book of Deuteronomy” of Wilhelm Moses Shapira’s
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From the Archives
Looking for Ludwig // Daniela Goetz
A Vienna old photo takes an archive researcher on a journey
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Tale of a Trail
The Underground Prisoners’ Museum in Jerusalem // Tamar Hayardeni
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