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|Camp commandant Franz Stangl and deputy Kurt Franz at the entrance to one of Treblinka’s staff residences – built in Tyrolean style. Stangl had a small zoo built on site

Spark of Rebellion

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Tension in the Air For the staff of the Treblinka death camp, Monday morning, August 2, 1943, dawned routinely. The SS officers went about their duties. Prisoners were rounded up for morning roll call, given...
ללא קטגוריה
The Triumph of the Maccabees||Judea and its neighbors circa 76 BCE

A Brief History of the Hasmoneans

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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...
Hanukkah
|המגזין The Ladies' Own Magazine פתח את גיליון ינואר 1871 בדיוקנאות של כותביו הקבועים

Written Off

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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...
Historic Characters
קדושה בלב המלחמה. שניים מהצנחנים עם ספר התורה העתיק, צידון 1982 | צילום: אבי אביאל

TORAH FROM SIDON

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Meeting in the Casbah Israel’s Operation Peace for Galilee (June 1982–May 1985), a military campaign that developed into full-scale war with far-reaching consequences throughout the Middle East, changed the lives of many Israelis forever. One...
Shavuot
Herzl used the stage to examine his own attempts to assimilate into European culture. Protagonist Jacob Samuel breathes his last in the final scene of The New Ghetto

Herzl’s Psychodrama

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Internal Eruption Surprisingly, prior to October 1894, even Theodor Herzl didn’t think a Jewish state was possible. On October 17, reviewing a play for his longtime employer, Vienna’s Neue Freie Presse daily, Herzl slammed the...
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Part of the Ardon windows at the national library

Zohar Unzipped

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Outside the Box The Zohar is structured as a commentary on the Torah, divided into sections corresponding to the weekly portion. The commentaries in the Zohar are traditionally believed to have been handed down from...
Lag baOmer
The Ten Sephirot or emanations of Kabbalistic tradition

Z-rated: For Forties Plus

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The Riddle of Knowledge What is it about this book that has had such a dramatic effect on the Jewish imagination, impressing its signature not only on Kabbala, but also on Jewish philosophy and literature...
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