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From the Archives | A Bonfire of Vanities

Hadassah Assouline

A sentence in the concluding prayer of every synagogue service infuriated Christians as an anti-Christian slur aimed at their messiah. An imperial decree wiped the offending words from the prayer books of Ashkenaz Hadassah Assouline...

ColumnsEarly modern periodGermanyIssue 10 | April 2012

Book Review | Pleasant are their Names

Elka Weber

Tell me your name and I’ll tell you where you come from. The origins and significance of Jewish names is a fast developing field of research, a rare window opening onto a world long-thought left...

Book ReviewsColumnsEarly modern periodIssue 10 | April 2012

Tale of a Trail | Heletz

Tamar HaYardeni

The dream of discovering a wealth of natural resources beneath the soil of the land of Israel is as old as the state itself. What actually happened when this dream briefly came true and hope...

ColumnsHistoric Walks in IsraelIssue 64 | March 2023Land of IsraelPost-1948

Book Review | Maimonides in His World

Shai Secunda

Shai Secunda Maimonides in His WorldPortrait of a Mediterranean Thinker Sarah StroumsaPrinceton University Press 2009 Faced with a sophisticated yet uncomplicated gadget, the New York Times’ review of the iPad™ offers two assessments side...

Book ReviewsColumnsIssue 1 | April 2010Medieval PeriodRabbis

Film review | Inglourious Basterds

Hayuta Deutsch

Musings on history, alternative history, and theology based on the surprising final scene of Tarantino’s film. Hayuta Deutsch Inglourious Basterds Quentin TarantinoUSA, 2009 An SS officer arrives at a dairy farm in a French...

ColumnsIssue 1 | April 2010Literature and Culture

Preservation – Salomon’s Mill

Moshe Chaim Shapira

Very few people are aware that Gershon Salomon, the veteran activist of the Temple Mount Faithful, is the scion of an old Jerusalemite family of millers. The preservation folder of a simple-looking house in the...

19th centuryColumnsIssue 1 | April 2010Land of Israel

Tale of a Trail | Allenby Square Jerusalem

Tamar HaYardeni

The sick man on the Bosphorus had lost his grip on Jerusalem, but to whom exactly did he surrender? Parades, ceremonies, and monuments marking the conquest of Israel’s future capital. Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Allenby...

ColumnsIssue 69 | June 2024JerusalemPre-state of Israel

From the Archives | A Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Letter

Hadassah Assouline

From the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe to his wife, written in America in the late 1920s Hadassah Assouline Sunday, 6 Iyar, on a train from Detroit to St. Louis To my dear wife, With gratitude to...

20th centuryAmericaColumnsIssue 1 | April 2010People

Picture of the Month | Planting Seedlings

Yisrael Goldman

Yisrael Goldman Tu Bishvat, the new year for trees in the Jewish calendar, has gained significantly in popularity over the generations. From a date of mainly fiscal significance for calculating agricultural tithes, it was expanded...

ColumnsTu Bishvat

The Jewish American Secret Police

Hadassah Assouline

A Jewish community organization in New York dealt with myriad issues, even creating an internal police force to deal with rising crime Hadassah Assouline In early September 1908, the chief of the New York City...

20th centuryAmerican JewsColumnsIssue 11 | July 2012New YorkPeople

Scent of Freedom

Tamar HaYardeni

Pipe Dreams The average tourist would definitely wrinkle his nose in disgust and pity at the row of old women beaming from the photo of the Russian Compound’s pilgrim hostel in turn-of-the-century Jerusalem. The subjects...

ColumnsIndependence Day|Tale of a TrailIssue 32 | June 2016

Columns

From the Archives | A Bonfire of Vanities

Book Review | Pleasant are their Names

Tale of a Trail | Heletz

Book Review | Maimonides in His World

Film review | Inglourious Basterds

Preservation – Salomon’s Mill

Tale of a Trail | Allenby Square Jerusalem

From the Archives | A Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Letter

Picture of the Month | Planting Seedlings

The Jewish American Secret Police

Scent of Freedom

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From the Archives | A Bonfire of Vanities

Book Review | Pleasant are their Names

Tale of a Trail | Heletz

Book Review | Maimonides in His World

Film review | Inglourious Basterds

Preservation – Salomon’s Mill

Tale of a Trail | Allenby Square Jerusalem

From the Archives | A Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Letter

Picture of the Month | Planting Seedlings

The Jewish American Secret Police

Scent of Freedom

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