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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...

11 19 For Goodness’ Sake // Abigail Green Montefiore’s philanthropy was legend not only among Jews. Working with Christian activists, he promoted Jewish causes in the name of humanity and civilization, and gave without regard for...

11 20 Sassoon and Sons // Gil Zohar Baghdad’s distinguished Sassoon dynasty made globalization its motto before anyone else had even coined the word - When Iran Ruled Jerusalem // Meir Loewenberg Few are aware that in 614...

11 17 Don’t Call Me Joseph // Haggai Misgav Scion of an aristocratic, priestly family in Jerusalem, Josephus Flavius explored various sects in search of his identity. As a rebel commander in the Great Revolt, he...