44Coded for Print // Tirza Kelman
Growing up in the wake of the invention of the printing press and in the shadow of the expulsion from Spain, Rabbi Yosef Karo dreamed of a code of Jewish law that could reach all his scattered people – and unite them
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Shtreimel Variations: The History of a Hat // Levi Cooper
Though synonymous with Hasidic Jewry, the shtreimel was originally more of a status symbol than a religious one. And not only for Jews, or for men, for that matter
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Joshua’s Altar // Sara Jo Ben Zvi
Hidden high on the slopes of Jabal Aybal in Samaria, a heap of rocks, bones, and ashes waited millennia for an archaeologist willing to risk his reputation just to tell its story
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Hebrew Woman in a Man’s World // Michal Fram Cohen
As if writing the first Hebrew novel by a woman weren’t challenge enough, Sarah Feiga Foner found herself criticized, ridiculed, and even accused of promiscuity. Her work may have been forgotten, but her story is one to remember
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From the Archives
Cinderella Story // Moshe Yagur
Documents from the Cairo Geniza reveal the complications involved when a slavewoman married into the Jewish people. Was it Jewish law, class snobbery, or greed that blocked her acceptance?
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