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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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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,...

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Past Present – Ultra-Orthodox Holocaust Commemoration

Michal Shaul

Although ultra-Orthodox Israelis don’t stand as the siren blares on Holocaust Memorial Day, the memory of European Jewry’s destruction continues to shape their community Michal Shaul Looking on from the sidelines, one might think Israel’s...

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From Temple to Talmud – Post-Temple Judaism

Yair Furstenberg

Rabbinic Judaism is often described as having developed in reaction to the loss of the Temple and its sacrificial ritual. Certainly, the sages of the period were responding to some kind of crisis. But was...

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Paving the Past – Second Temple Floor

Assaf Avraham

If Jewish sources are anything to go by, Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem was one of the most magnificent edifices ever built. After years of painstaking archaeological research, sifting through rubble illegally removed from the Temple...

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Fight for the Spirit – Holocaust Leadership

Isaac Hershkowitz

Though physical help was largely beyond their power, Jewish religious leaders in the Holocaust sought to ease their followers’ spiritual pain, saving Judaism as well as Jews Isaac Hershkowitz The Holocaust challenged the humanity of...

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Echoes of Sorrow – Mesopotamian Laments

Tourists on the Battlefield – 1929 Arab Riots

Past Present – Ultra-Orthodox Holocaust Commemoration

From Temple to Talmud – Post-Temple Judaism

Paving the Past – Second Temple Floor

Fight for the Spirit – Holocaust Leadership

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Echoes of Sorrow – Mesopotamian Laments

Tourists on the Battlefield – 1929 Arab Riots

Past Present – Ultra-Orthodox Holocaust Commemoration

From Temple to Talmud – Post-Temple Judaism

Paving the Past – Second Temple Floor

Fight for the Spirit – Holocaust Leadership

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