25 | Adar 5775 | February 2015
11 25 Hunting the Fox // Yagil Henkin Faced with kilometers of trenches and barbed wire, and the Third Reich’s most talented commander, General Bernard Montgomery had to use all the tools at his disposal to...
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22 | Tammuz 5774 | July 2014
11 22 A Hebrew Zealot // Yemima Hovav It took him twenty years to produce just one volume of his dictionary, and fewer than three hundred entries in its sixteen volumes were words of his own...
18 | Tishrei 5774 | September 2013
11 18 Secrets of the Qumran Calendar // Shlomit Kendi-Harel Why did the mysterious ascetics of the Dead Sea sect and the wealthy Jerusalemite priests of the Second Temple clash over the calendar? Could the...
19 | Kislev 5774 | November 2013
11 19 For Goodness’ Sake // Abigail Green Montefiore’s philanthropy was legend not only among Jews. Working with Christian activists, he promoted Jewish causes in the name of humanity and civilization, and gave without regard for...
6 | Av-Elul 5771 | Aug-Sept 2011
6 The Stargazer // Alex Tal As the scientific and religious boundaries of the Middle Ages began to give way, David Gans explored both the Kabbala of Maharal and the new cosmology of Tycho Brahe...
3 | Shevat 5771 | January 2011
3 Guardian of Jewish Women // Hanan Harif Although Bertha Pappenheim never had children of her own, she did everything she could to rescue Jewish women and children from a cruel fate, laying the foundations for...
A Brief History of the Hasmoneans
Hasmonean generations (click image to enlarge) All in the Family Priestly families preferred to marry within their own privileged class, but the Hasmoneans took this practice to something of an extreme. Despite the rivalry between...
