One Hundred Good Years
This article is dedicated in memory of Haim Stier, who passed away in the course of our combined efforts to transfer his extensive collection of New Year cards to the Israel Museum. (Published at Issue...
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One Minute to Midnight
In loving memory of Dr. Moshe Avital, Holocaust scholar, educator, author, and speaker, whose unwavering faith, courage, and resilience inspired so many. Lessons from History – innovative educational Jewish history programs Seventeen years ago, as...
Messianic Mania
When I had attained the age of 20, I began to study the Zohar and the Lurianic writings. [According to the Talmud] whoever wants to purify himself receives the aid of Heaven; and thus He...
38 | Tammuz 5777 | July 2017
38 Lonely Man of Honor // Yemima Hovav Ultimate visionary and despicable rival, forged in his native Odessa but focused on the Promised Land, Ze’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky was unique – and an outsider – among...
40 | Kislev 5778 | Nov 2017
40 Long Before Balfour // Ran Ichay While the Balfour Declaration is famous as the first major step toward creating a modern Jewish homeland in the land of Israel, the groundwork was laid centuries earlier,...
41 | Shevat 5778 | January 2018
41 In the Service of the Czar // Irena Vladimirsky The St. Petersburg police chief, a Russian diplomat, and a comedian all sit down together at the Seder... It sounds like a joke, but Peter the...
42 | Nisan 5778 | March 2018
42 Lights, Camera, Zionism! // Zahi Cohen What made Hollywood’s favorite screenwriter work for the Zionist underground? Was it Ben Hecht’s warm heart, his stormy personality, his shocking discovery of Nazi atrocities – or all...
43 | Tammuz 5778 | June 2018
43 Herzl’s Psychodrama // Yehuda Moraly Writing The New Ghetto clearly changed Theodor Herzl. Could this forgotten play have been the crucible that forged The Jewish State? - Beyond the Sambatyon // Moti Benmelech The...
44 | Elul 5778 | Aug/Sept 2018
44 Coded 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...
46 | Shevat 5779 | January 2019
46 Egypt’s Jewish Molière // Amr Zakaria Khalil Banished from Egypt time and again for promoting nationalism and exposing government corruption, James Sanua harnessed humor and drama to continue jabbing at the regime from afar. Soon...
34 | Tishrei 5777 | October 2016
34 Eternal Optimist // Yemima Hovav Moses Mendelssohn was one of the first Jews to wrestle with living in two worlds. Though battered time and again by anti-Semitism, his faith in the Enlightenment remained as...
