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A Zionist Life – Chaim Weizmann

Yemima Hovav

When requesting that Chaim Weizmann become Israel’s first president, Ben-Gurion described him as having done more to create the state than anyone else. Yet Weizmann’s new role effectively removed the lifelong activist from Israeli politics...

ArticlesIssue 75 | December 2025

Tale of a Trail | Muristan Market

Tamar HaYardeni

Like the center of a five-pointed star, marked by a fountain and surrounded by storefronts, the Muristan Market in Jerusalem’s Old City draws tourists, garment manufacturers, and serious shoppers alike Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Muristan...

ColumnsIssue 75 | December 2025

Book Review | The Many Lives of Anne Frank

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Many Lives of Anne Frank Ruth FranklinJewish Lives series, Yale University Press, 2025424 pages Is Anne Frank a symbol of Jewish oppression or a universal model of courage in the...

20th centuryBook ReviewsColumnsHolocaust|WWIIIssue 75 | December 2025NetherlandsWomenWriters

Book Review | Herod the Great

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World Martin GoodmanJewish Lives series, Yale University Press, 2024227 pages Martin Goodman begins this masterful chronicle of Herod’s tempestuous life by asking whether...

AntiquityBook ReviewsColumnsIssue 75 | December 2025KingsLand of Israel

Warner Brothers’ Leading – Harry Warner

Yuval Rivlin

On the eve of World War II, Jews’ domination of Hollywood got political. How Harry Warner’s testimony before the Senate redefined Americanism Yuval Rivlin Harry Warner wasn’t a nice guy. Years of Hollywood wheeling and...

|WWIIAmericaAmerican JewsArticlesIssue 75 | December 2025

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

Tale of a Trail | Gihon Spring

Tamar HaYardeni

Jerusalem’s water supply has been vulnerable to attack since antiquity, prompting ingenious solutions that have long intrigued archaeologists. What made the city’s water source so unusual – and how was it protected from enemies? Tamar...

AntiquityColumnsIssue 74 | October 2025JerusalemSukkotTale of a Trail

Portrait of a People | Everyday Miracles

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Abraham, Sarah, and the AngelOil on wood58 X 71 cmBelgium, 1520Louvre, Paris Jan Provoost1465-1529 Northern RenaissanceNorthern European movement influenced by the Italian Renaissance as well as humanism, Protestantism, and religious warfare. Realism and...

ArtBelgiumColumnsIssue 74 | October 2025Medieval Period

Zoroastrians at Heart – Iran’s Zoroastrian Heritage

Thamar E. Gindin

Beneath the veil of Iran’s current regime, its people have nurtured their pre-Islamic roots with pride. Until June 12, 2025, the Zoroastrian faith, the Sassanid-Persian Empire, and above all Cyrus, “king of kings,” were all...

ArticlesCyrusIranIssue 74 | October 2025The Sassanian EmpireZoroastrianism

Amsterdam Festival Prayer Book

Ephraim Shoham-Steiner

Two rabbis, a stonemason’s guild, a Jewish merchant, and the archbishop of Cologne all helped solve the riddle presented by a magnificent, medieval prayer book found in Amsterdam Ephraim Shoham-Steiner In September 2019, an armored...

ArticlesGermanyHigh Holy DaysIssue 74 | October 2025Medieval Period

Issues

A Zionist Life – Chaim Weizmann

Tale of a Trail | Muristan Market

Book Review | The Many Lives of Anne Frank

Book Review | Herod the Great

Warner Brothers’ Leading – Harry Warner

Game of Thrones – Hasmonean Civil War

Clothed in Kindness – Clothing Sabbath

Tale of a Trail | Gihon Spring

Portrait of a People | Everyday Miracles

Zoroastrians at Heart – Iran’s Zoroastrian Heritage

Amsterdam Festival Prayer Book

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A Zionist Life – Chaim Weizmann

Tale of a Trail | Muristan Market

Book Review | The Many Lives of Anne Frank

Book Review | Herod the Great

Warner Brothers’ Leading – Harry Warner

Game of Thrones – Hasmonean Civil War

Clothed in Kindness – Clothing Sabbath

Tale of a Trail | Gihon Spring

Portrait of a People | Everyday Miracles

Zoroastrians at Heart – Iran’s Zoroastrian Heritage

Amsterdam Festival Prayer Book

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