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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...
41 In the Service of the Czar // Irena Vladimirsky The St. Petersburg police chief, a Russian diplomat, and a comedian all sit down together at the Seder... It sounds like a joke, but Peter the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
