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33   Blank Page // Yemima Hovav One of Victorian England’s more flamboyant politicians, Benjamin Disraeli was baptized as a child but remained proud of his Sephardic Jewish origins. His sharp wit, social grace, and...

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...

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...

31 The Man Who Plucked Bread from the Sky // Ran Levi One of the greatest chemists of all time, Fritz Haber saved the world from famine but went on to father chemical warfare. Even his...

  32 My Son the Pirate // Yoav Pulver Few rabbis have lived a life as colorful as Samuel Pallache. Merchant, diplomat, and emissary to the king of Morocco, Pallache even resorted to piracy to exact...

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...

  Healing Minds // Gabriel Bukobza Exchanging the lab for the analyst’s couch, Sigmund Freud defied the scientific conventions of his day. The man who attributed supreme importance to early childhood benefitted from his own...

  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...