Place in the Sun
This article was published in issue 52 | Nisan 5780 | April 2020 In early 1969, a very elderly man lay in a darkened hospice room in Jerusalem’s Katamon neighborhood. Almost nothing was left of him...
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It Takes a (Hasidic) Village
Where to? Unique ultra-Orthodox pioneer village at the foot of Carmel Mountains area map The Masters’ Journey Every good story of pioneer Zionism has its share of swamps, malaria, and Arab marauders – and preferably...
Salonika’s Mystic Quartet
[To hear this article on our podcast please click here] Gateway to the Empire In 1492, four hundred glorious years of Spanish Jewish literature and culture abruptly ended. The land that had nurtured brilliant Jewish...
51 | Shevat 5780 | February 2020
. Salonika’s Mystical Quartet At the Ottoman Empire’s western gate, four kabbalists – Solomon Molkho and rabbis Yosef Taitazak, Yosef Karo, and Shlomo Alkabetz – gathered to usher in Israel’s redemption, each in his...
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Flowing But Not Forgotten
- - House on Endless Waters Emuna Elon Atria Books (Simon & Schuster), 2020, 320 pages “Those waters have already flowed onwards” is the practical yet poetic statement with which the fictitious Dutch heroine of Emuna...
50 | Kislev 5780 | December 2019
- - Voice behind the Iron Curtain // Zvi Golany Israel’s USSR Liaison Bureau saw Nehama Lipshitz as its one-man “Light Music Department,” broadcasting directly to the heart of Russian Jewry. Ditching a Lithuanian opera...
Voice Behind the Iron Curtain
Songs from Home In the heart of the Soviet Union, where any public demonstration of Judaism carried a prison sentence, who would dare perform in Yiddish? Yet that’s exactly what Nehama Lipshitz did, serenading the...
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...
49 | Tishrei 5780 | October 2019
49 - The Price of Dissent // Moti Benmelech Uriel da Costa paid many times over for the changes he made in his life. He sacrificed a comfortable livelihood in Portugal for the true faith he found in...
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