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52 | Nisan 5780 | April 2020

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.   Counting the Hours When did people begin telling time? Many ancient societies divided day and night into units whose length or number varied with the seasons. What advantages did variable-length hours provide, and...
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It Takes a (Hasidic) Village

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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...
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51 | Shevat 5780 | February 2020

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.   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

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- - 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...
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50 | Kislev 5780 | December 2019

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- - 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...
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One Minute to Midnight

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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...
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48 | Tammuz 5779 | July 2019

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48 - The Dark Hours // Anat Kutner Though sleep and sex are hardly the stuff of history, a surprising amount can be gleaned from rabbinic responsa dealing with medieval Jewish sleeping habits. With candlelight...
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