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...
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7 | Tishrei 5772 | October 2011
7 100 Good Years // Rachel Sarfati New Year card hold a fascinating record of the previous century [icon name="file-text-o" class="" unprefixed_class=""] Read the article in the digital version - King of Cantors // Akiva Zimmerman From...
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...
Written Off
Footloose and Fancy-Free “Journal, La Guayra, 1844,” the cover of the precious diary reads. Its nineteen-year-old author identifies herself as “Henrietta.” Four years later, she would leave Venezuela and enter the United States as “Henretty...
Sky-Heist
Baby Air Force Twenty-five years have passed since the Israeli Air Force Museum opened in the blazing sun over the Hatzerim air base, not far from Beersheba. Hundreds of models of retired warplanes are arrayed...
History Obliterated
Everyone’s Story The Holy Land’s ancient vistas and treasures play a vital role in the identity and faith of many hundreds of millions the world over. Though certain biblical locations have gained World Heritage status,...
Megilla with a Secular Twist
The Megilla’s Darker Side Itzik Manger was born in 1901 in Czernowitz, although one version of the biography he invented for himself claimed that his tailor father had migrated from Romania, and that he himself...
The Youngest Maccabee
Guerrillas in the Hills The year 160 BCE found the Hasmonean family in a sorry state. Judah had fallen in battle, his army decimated and the Maccabee rebellion all but quashed. Seleucid king Demetrius I...
Fighting for Heart and Soul
Why Hannukah? And Judah, and his brethren, and all the congregation of Israel decreed that the day of the dedication of the altar should be kept in its season from year to year for eight...
Cast a Giant Shadow
Antiochus' Castle People generally assume the history of Hasmonean Jerusalem began with the Seleucid conquest of Judea from the Egyptian Ptolemies, escalated with Antiochus Epiphanes’ anti-Jewish edicts and the idol he placed in the Temple,...
