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Lost to Lebanon – Metula’s Lebanese Fields

Dotan Goren

Though founded 130 years ago, Metula remains Israel’s northernmost settlement. How did most of its farmland end up in the Lebanese municipality of Marjayoun? And how did Metula’s residents fight back? Dotan Goren On March...

ArticlesIssue 77 | June 2026

Aleppo’s Crown Jewels – Aleppo’s Jews

Leah Bornstein Makovetsky

Aleppo’s Jewish community was famous for two things: its trading acumen and its biblical codex. Among its sharpest financial minds and its scholars’ most generous supporters were the Francos, Italian merchants who brought the winds...

ArticlesIssue 77 | June 2026

Judaizing Zenobia? – Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra

Haggai Olshanetsky

At her peak, Empress Zenobia ruled most of the eastern Roman Empire, from the Persian border to Egypt. Several Christian sources mention her conversion to Judaism. Yet did she actually convert? And if so, to...

ArticlesIssue 77 | June 2026

Lady Liberty’s Jewish Voice – Emma Lazarus

Shira Wolosky

The first to boldly associate the Statue of Liberty with welcoming refugees, Emma Lazarus was also arguably the first public voice of American Zionism. Her work raises questions of identity we still struggle with today...

ArticlesIssue 57 | June 2021

Lessons from History – One Minute to Midnight

Tova Fish-Rosenberg

An innovative Holocaust education program teaches students to create not just oral history but an intergenerational dialogue passing on the Jewish people’s story and values Tova Fish-Rosenberg Seventeen years ago, as a day school principal,...

ArticlesIssue 54 | September 2020

Echoes of Sorrow – Mesopotamian Laments

Uri Gabbay

Mesopotamian kingdoms rose and fell, but cultic laments of doom remained a constant ritual. What was their purpose, and what can we learn from their echoes in the biblical book of Lamentations? Uri Gabbay Keening...

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Conspiracy or Contagion? – Israel’s Lost Yemenite Children

Yechiel Michael Barilan

In the early days of the State of Israel, numerous infants born to Yemenite immigrants disappeared after hospitalization. Many families have long suspected that their children were secretly transferred to adoptive families. A new medical...

ArticlesIssue 53 | July 2020

Breaking the Mold – Edward Brampton

Haggai Olshanetsky

A mariner, a knight, the governor of the Isle of Guernsey, and a nobleman with influence at the English and the Portuguese courts – Edward Brampton, the son of a Jewish blacksmith, defied the so-called...

ArticlesIssue 54 | September 2020

Shul or Show? – Golden Age of Cantors

David Olivestone

The huge popularity of cantorial concerts and records during the first half of the 20th century turned the most talented cantors into celebrities. But did they cross the line from prayer to entertainment? David Olivestone...

ArticlesIssue 54 | September 2020

The Sheriff of Tel Aviv – Meir Dizengoff

Ilan Shchori

While pioneers enthused over each new furrow plowed, Meir Dizengoff put his heart and soul into building and running the first new Jewish city in millennia – inspired not by the patriarchs, but by the...

ArticlesIssue 54 | September 2020

Festivals of Freedom – Jailed Chabad Leaders

Netanel Lederberg

The horrors of imprisonment in czarist and Stalinist Russia were seared into the memory of all who survived their sentences. Few, however, celebrated their release as joyously as the Lubavitcher rebbes, whose followers mark these...

ArticlesIssue 56 | March 2021

Articles

Lost to Lebanon – Metula’s Lebanese Fields

Aleppo’s Crown Jewels – Aleppo’s Jews

Judaizing Zenobia? – Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra

Lady Liberty’s Jewish Voice – Emma Lazarus

Lessons from History – One Minute to Midnight

Echoes of Sorrow – Mesopotamian Laments

Conspiracy or Contagion? – Israel’s Lost Yemenite Children

Breaking the Mold – Edward Brampton

Shul or Show? – Golden Age of Cantors

The Sheriff of Tel Aviv – Meir Dizengoff

Festivals of Freedom – Jailed Chabad Leaders

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Articles

Lost to Lebanon – Metula’s Lebanese Fields

Aleppo’s Crown Jewels – Aleppo’s Jews

Judaizing Zenobia? – Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra

Lady Liberty’s Jewish Voice – Emma Lazarus

Lessons from History – One Minute to Midnight

Echoes of Sorrow – Mesopotamian Laments

Conspiracy or Contagion? – Israel’s Lost Yemenite Children

Breaking the Mold – Edward Brampton

Shul or Show? – Golden Age of Cantors

The Sheriff of Tel Aviv – Meir Dizengoff

Festivals of Freedom – Jailed Chabad Leaders

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