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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 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 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 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 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...

35 Elie Wiesel's Dark Sinai // Yoel Rappel Prof. Elie Wiesel was perhaps the world’s most famous Holocaust survivor and scholar. Friend and colleague Dr. Yoel Rappel returns to this Nobel laureate’s roots in the...

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...