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Warner Brothers’ Leading – Harry Warner

Yuval Rivlin

On the eve of World War II, Jews’ domination of Hollywood got political. How Harry Warner’s testimony before the Senate redefined Americanism Yuval Rivlin Harry Warner wasn’t a nice guy. Years of Hollywood wheeling and...

|WWIIAmericaAmerican JewsArticlesIssue 75 | December 2025

Game of Thrones – Hasmonean Civil War

Ilan Abecassis

The Hasmonean story began with the heroic Hanukka tale but ended in a civil war sparked by two rival royal brothers. Two cultural elites – Pharisee and Sadducee – vied for dominance in the death...

AntiquityArticlesHanukkahIssue 75 | December 2025Jerusalem

Clothed in Kindness – Clothing Sabbath

Levi Cooper and Itai Cooper

Teaser: The Jews who dominated Thessaloniki’s garment industry celebrated Hanukka by displaying their best wares – and by ensuring the community’s schoolboys were well clothed for winter. This worthy example spread far and wide Levi...

ArticlesEarly modern periodGreeceHanukkahIssue 75 | December 2025Rabbis

Zoroastrians at Heart – Iran’s Zoroastrian Heritage

Thamar E. Gindin

Beneath the veil of Iran’s current regime, its people have nurtured their pre-Islamic roots with pride. Until June 12, 2025, the Zoroastrian faith, the Sassanid-Persian Empire, and above all Cyrus, “king of kings,” were all...

ArticlesCyrusIranIssue 74 | October 2025The Sassanian EmpireZoroastrianism

Amsterdam Festival Prayer Book

Ephraim Shoham-Steiner

Two rabbis, a stonemason’s guild, a Jewish merchant, and the archbishop of Cologne all helped solve the riddle presented by a magnificent, medieval prayer book found in Amsterdam Ephraim Shoham-Steiner In September 2019, an armored...

ArticlesGermanyHigh Holy DaysIssue 74 | October 2025Medieval Period

Persian Riddle – Iran and Israel

David Menashri

Fifty years ago, Israelis lived and worked freely in Iran. How did those peaceful relations turn to war, and how do Iranians perceive Israel now, after half a century under the Islamic Republic? David Menashri...

20th centuryArticlesIranIssue 74 | October 2025KhoumeiniMohammad Reza Shah

Behind the Veil – Mashhadi Jews

Hilda Nissimi

Crypto-Jews are usually associated with the conversos of early modern Spain and Portugal, but less than two hundred years ago, the Jews of Mashhad, Iran, met a similar fate. How did a century in hiding...

19th centuryArticlesIranIssue 74 | October 2025Mashhadi Jews

The Hasid From Prague – Jiří Langer

Levi Cooper

What led a young, acculturated Jew from Prague to seek guidance at the court of the Bełz Hasidic master? What brought this spiritual seeker back to his hometown and then to Tel Aviv? And how...

20th centuryArticlesCzech RepublicIssue 65 | June 2023Writers

Royal Convert – Queen Helene of Adiabene

Tal Ilan

Even antiquity had its celebrity culture, with intellectuals chronicling the lives of the famous. The conversion of an entire royal family to Judaism thus fascinated both the sages and Josephus, who recorded the wondrous deeds...

AntiquityArticlesIssue 65 | June 2023Women

Lay of the Land – Ashtori Ha-parhi

Amichay Schwartz

Using skills honed over generations, 14th-century scholar Ashtori Ha-parhi wandered the length and breadth of the biblical land of Israel, quadrant in hand, resolving issues that had long troubled the Jewish world Amichay Schwartz Ashtori...

ArticlesIssue 65 | June 2023Land of IsraelMedieval PeriodProvence

The Christian Search for China’s Jews – Jews of Kaifeng

Noam Urbach

What prompted the first Anglican bishop in China to seek out the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng? And why for centuries were missionaries the only ones to transmit word of these Jews westward? Noam Urbach...

19th centuryArticlesChinaIssue 65 | June 2023Writers

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Warner Brothers’ Leading – Harry Warner

Game of Thrones – Hasmonean Civil War

Clothed in Kindness – Clothing Sabbath

Zoroastrians at Heart – Iran’s Zoroastrian Heritage

Amsterdam Festival Prayer Book

Persian Riddle – Iran and Israel

Behind the Veil – Mashhadi Jews

The Hasid From Prague – Jiří Langer

Royal Convert – Queen Helene of Adiabene

Lay of the Land – Ashtori Ha-parhi

The Christian Search for China’s Jews – Jews of Kaifeng

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Articles

Warner Brothers’ Leading – Harry Warner

Game of Thrones – Hasmonean Civil War

Clothed in Kindness – Clothing Sabbath

Zoroastrians at Heart – Iran’s Zoroastrian Heritage

Amsterdam Festival Prayer Book

Persian Riddle – Iran and Israel

Behind the Veil – Mashhadi Jews

The Hasid From Prague – Jiří Langer

Royal Convert – Queen Helene of Adiabene

Lay of the Land – Ashtori Ha-parhi

The Christian Search for China’s Jews – Jews of Kaifeng

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