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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

Tel Aviv’s Not-So-Black Hats – Hasidic Tel Aviv

Menachem Keren-Kratz

The city that never sleeps might now epitomize secular Israel, but for decades it was the country’s Hasidic capital – and Zionist too! Menachem Keren-Kratz Shoppers on Tel Aviv’s fashionable Shenkin Street and high-tech workers...

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The Hasidic Track – Hasidic Train Line

Ze’ev Kitsis

Change followed swiftly in the wake of the railway, making the steam engine’s power and speed synonymous with modernity. Yet the ostensibly conservative Hasidic movement eagerly embraced the noisy, crowded carriages of train travel. New...

ArticlesIssue 56 | March 2021

Wagner’s Heir? – Wagner and Hitler

Yehuda Moraly

Can a clear path be sketched from Wagner’s music to Auschwitz? Can one artist’s work shape history? Wagner’s oeuvre was beloved by Hitler and played in the concentration camps, accompanying unspeakable acts of cruelty. But...

ArticlesIssue 48 | July 2019

Old Sparks, New Vessels – Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov

Roee Horen

Hasidism’s emergence at the dawn of modernity – and the movement’s subsequent, unprecedented success – can be attributed to Rabbi Israel Ba’al Shem Tov’s skillful use of surprising sources to weave innovation into the fabric...

ArticlesIssue 56 | March 2021

Articles

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

Tel Aviv’s Not-So-Black Hats – Hasidic Tel Aviv

The Hasidic Track – Hasidic Train Line

Wagner’s Heir? – Wagner and Hitler

Old Sparks, New Vessels – Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov

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Articles

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

Tel Aviv’s Not-So-Black Hats – Hasidic Tel Aviv

The Hasidic Track – Hasidic Train Line

Wagner’s Heir? – Wagner and Hitler

Old Sparks, New Vessels – Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov

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