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Tale of a Trail | Ades Synagogue

Tamar HaYardeni

A tiny architectural jewel nestled within the picturesque jumble of Jerusalem’s Nahlaot neighborhood, the Ades Synagogue preserves the traditional craftsmanship and liturgy of Jewish Aleppo Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Ades SynagogueJewish Aleppo’s historic synagogue in...

Bezalel SchoolColumnsHanukkahIssue 77 | June 2026JerusalemPre-state of IsraelSyrian Jews

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...

AntiquityarchaeologyArticlesIraqIssue 53 | July 2020Tish'a Be'av

Portrait of a People | Spreading Palms

Yael Mali

Yael Mali The date palm has long been one of the Holy Land’s agricultural and economic mainstays – and an emblem of its rise and fall Come to Palestine Lithograph63 X 99 cmBritish Mandate...

ArtColumnsIssue 76 | March 2026Land of IsraelPre-state of IsraelTu Bishvat

From the Archives | Hasidim at Heart

Dani Hacker and Tanya Regev

What do Israel’s third president, businessman and publisher Salman Schocken, and Breslov Hasidic leader Rabbi Yisroel Dov Ber Odesser have in common? A pamphlet distributed in Jerusalem connects them all Dani Hacker and Tanya Regev...

ColumnsFrom the Archiveshasidic sectsHigh Holy DaysIssue 76 | March 2026JerusalemPost-1948StatesmenZionism

Why Is This Passover Different? – Ethiopian Pesach

Sharon Shalom

How does Ethiopian Jewry’s observance of Pesach differ from that of most Jews, and why? Are these differences a function of this community’s historic isolation or a matter of principle? And what can they teach...

20th centuryArticlesEthiopiaEthiopian JewsIssue 76 | March 2026PesachZionism

Tale of a Trail | Khirbet Bak, Mount Meron

Tamar HaYardeni

Israel Bak wasn’t one to give up. The first printer in Ottoman Palestine, he also established an agricultural village on Mount Meron in a series of none-too-successful pioneering endeavors Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Khirbet Bak,...

19th centuryColumnsentrepreneursIssue 59 | November 2021Lag B'OmerLand of IsraelZionism

Egypt’s Exodus – Egyptian Rule in Canaan

Assaf Avraham

Though there’s no evidence outside the Bible for the Jewish people’s sojourn in Egypt, historical and archaeological finds from the end of the late Bronze Age in the land of Israel indicate that Egyptian domination...

AntiquityArticlesEgyptIssue 76 | March 2026Land of IsraelPesach

Tourists on the Battlefield – 1929 Arab Riots

Glenda M. Woolf

They weren’t partial to either Arabs or Jews. But when a group of British divinity students on a summer pilgrimage to the Holy Land found themselves caught up in Arab attacks on the Jewish population,...

ArticlesIssue 62 | September 2022JerusalemPre-state of IsraelTish'a Be'av

Divinely Plagued – Wolff Haggada

Yaakov Ben-Ze’ev

Identifying perhaps more with the plague-ridden Egyptians than with liberated Israel, the scribe of the prized Wolff Haggada referred readers to his epic testimony concerning the horrors of the Black Plague and how he reconciled...

ArticlesdeathIssue 47 | April 2019JudaismLiterature and CulturemedicineMedieval PeriodPesachProvencescribes

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

Holidays

Tale of a Trail | Ades Synagogue

Echoes of Sorrow – Mesopotamian Laments

Portrait of a People | Spreading Palms

From the Archives | Hasidim at Heart

Why Is This Passover Different? – Ethiopian Pesach

Tale of a Trail | Khirbet Bak, Mount Meron

Egypt’s Exodus – Egyptian Rule in Canaan

Tourists on the Battlefield – 1929 Arab Riots

Divinely Plagued – Wolff Haggada

Game of Thrones – Hasmonean Civil War

Clothed in Kindness – Clothing Sabbath

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Holidays

Tale of a Trail | Ades Synagogue

Echoes of Sorrow – Mesopotamian Laments

Portrait of a People | Spreading Palms

From the Archives | Hasidim at Heart

Why Is This Passover Different? – Ethiopian Pesach

Tale of a Trail | Khirbet Bak, Mount Meron

Egypt’s Exodus – Egyptian Rule in Canaan

Tourists on the Battlefield – 1929 Arab Riots

Divinely Plagued – Wolff Haggada

Game of Thrones – Hasmonean Civil War

Clothed in Kindness – Clothing Sabbath

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