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Tale of a Trail | Khirbet Midras

Tamar HaYardeni

Scrambling through the hidden tunnel network of Khirbet Midras takes one back to the claustrophobic perils faced by the Bar Kokhba rebels Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Khirbet Midras Extensive tunnel network from the Bar Kokhba...

ColumnsIssue 68 | March 2024

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

Bar Mitzvas Coming of Age – Bar Mitzva

Hizky Shoham

Thirteenth birthdays haven’t always been cause for Jewish celebration. When were the first bar and bat mitzva ceremonies, and why their enduring appeal even among otherwise unaffiliated Jews? Hizky Shoham Why celebrate bar and bat...

20th centuryAmericaAmerican JewsArticlesIssue 68 | March 2024Land of IsraelLifecycle

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

Greatness in Store – Gittel Dinowitz

Tamar HaYardeni

Very few know anything about her, and even the street sign bearing her name says precious little. Yet Gittel Dinowitz was a pillar of pre-state Jerusalem’s Old City, her leadership growing out of the store...

20th centuryArticlesIsrael's warsIssue 68 | March 2024JerusalemPre-state of IsraelWritersZionism

Living on the Edge – Forced Conversions in Spain

Shalom Sadik

The Spanish expulsion is usually considered the nadir of Judeo-Christian relations on the Iberian Peninsula, but in many ways the largely overlooked mass conversion of Jews a century earlier was far worse Shalom Sadik For...

ArticlesconversosIssue 68 | March 2024Medieval PeriodSpain

Issues

Tale of a Trail | Khirbet Midras

A Zionist Life – Chaim Weizmann

Tale of a Trail | Muristan Market

Bar Mitzvas Coming of Age – Bar Mitzva

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

Greatness in Store – Gittel Dinowitz

Living on the Edge – Forced Conversions in Spain

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Tale of a Trail | Khirbet Midras

A Zionist Life – Chaim Weizmann

Tale of a Trail | Muristan Market

Bar Mitzvas Coming of Age – Bar Mitzva

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

Greatness in Store – Gittel Dinowitz

Living on the Edge – Forced Conversions in Spain

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