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36 Two-Faced Hadrian // Haggai Misgav In Jewish tradition, he was one of the most ruthless tyrants who ever rose up to destroy us, but to the millions of other nationals under his sway, he...

  37 A Woman’s Hand // Tova Cohen The first modern Hebrew writers were mostly young, educated, secular, European – and male. Yet despite the barriers of gender and education, a few women also published...

28   Newton’s Fourth Law // Ayval Leshem Ramati For Sir Isaac Newton, the laws of motion and mathematics were not personal discoveries, but divine gifts, encoded into the design of the Tabernacle - Mystery of...

29 High Over Haifa // Ami-Menashe Schrager Ever since its mystic 19th century beginnings in Shi’ite Iran, the Baha’i faith has been under attack, and its adherents driven from place after place. How did the Baha’is’ message...

30 Always a Stranger // Yemima Hovav Maurycy Gottlieb aspired to be Polish Jewry’s national artist, changing its image with his brush and palette. His tragic death cut short his musings on Jewish identity - From...

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...

  27 Zionist with Cello // Yemima Hovav What place was there for music, let alone an orchestra, amid the Zionist practicalities of state-building? For internationally renowned cellist Thelma Yellin and the young musicians she nurtured...

11 21 Treasures of Exile // Eli Gurfinkel Don Isaac Abravanel rose to the greatest heights of two powerful medieval courts only to be dashed to the depths as a fugitive Jew. Was his grandfather’s apostasy...

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...

11 24 The Youngest Maccabi // Haggai Misgav Guerilla leader turned charismatic statesman, Jonathan the Hasmonean exchanged his daring tactics for shrewd diplomacy to take the Hasmonean rebellion center stage - Yodit the Ethiopian Cinderella // Steven...

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...