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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...

ColumnsIssue 76 | March 2026

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...

ColumnsIssue 76 | March 2026

Tale of a Trail | Mikveh Israel

Tamar HaYardeni

Jules Védrines was the first to fly to the Holy Land, though he skipped Jerusalem. But what made the famous pilot miss his designated landing at Mikveh Israel? Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Mikveh IsraelThe temporary...

ColumnsIssue 76 | March 2026

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...

ArticlesIssue 76 | March 2026

Gateway to the Mountain – Jews on the Mountain

Ben Shragge

Between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, the Jews of Derbent clung to their unique culture despite invaders, revolution, and civil war. Largely uprooted by 20th-century challenges, they still preserve the memory of the...

ArticlesIssue 61 | May 2022

Tale of a Trail | Northern Dead Sea

Tamar HaYardeni

Though the planet’s lowest point might sound like hell on earth, a few crazy dreamers discovered its heavenly promise of health and beauty. The story of Dead Sea Works’ rise from the sands Tamar HaYardeni...

ColumnsIssue 61 | May 2022

Sporting with History | Against All Odds

Haim Kaufmann

Though the 1936 Berlin Olympics are perhaps best remembered for black runner Jesse Owens’ stunning victories, Jewish athletes’ achievements proved equally embarrassing for Hitler Haim Kaufmann In 1931, Germany was selected to host the 1936...

ColumnsIssue 61 | May 2022

Quick Looks at Books

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism | The Wealthy Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism Daniel J. LaskerLittman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2022253 pages A...

ColumnsIssue 61 | May 2022

From the Archives | Fighting the Ministry of Amnesia

Ilya Vovshin

Aaron Krikheli immersed himself in recording the history and culture of Georgia’s Jews just as the powers that be set about obliterating Jewish identity throughout the Soviet Union. One man’s struggle against officially mandated amnesia...

ColumnsIssue 61 | May 2022

Portrait of a People | A Dream Finally Come True

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel The LashGouache25 x 17.5 cmTbilisi, 1939Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi Shalom Koboshvili1876–1941 Historic Realism Solomon (Shalom) Koboshvili was born to a poor Jewish family in Akhaltsikhe, Georgia. Hoping to raise a scholar, his parents...

ColumnsIssue 61 | May 2022

Rivers of Poetry – Uri Zvi Greenberg

Akiva Goldstein

Few have been as versatile or lived lives as varied as Uri Zvi Greenberg. A revolutionary, anarchist poet who foresaw both the Arab massacre of Jews in 1929 and the Holocaust, Greenberg wandered between past,...

ArticlesIssue 60 | February 2022

Issues

Portrait of a People | Spreading Palms

From the Archives | Hasidim at Heart

Tale of a Trail | Mikveh Israel

Why Is This Passover Different? – Ethiopian Pesach

Gateway to the Mountain – Jews on the Mountain

Tale of a Trail | Northern Dead Sea

Sporting with History | Against All Odds

Quick Looks at Books

From the Archives | Fighting the Ministry of Amnesia

Portrait of a People | A Dream Finally Come True

Rivers of Poetry – Uri Zvi Greenberg

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Issues

Portrait of a People | Spreading Palms

From the Archives | Hasidim at Heart

Tale of a Trail | Mikveh Israel

Why Is This Passover Different? – Ethiopian Pesach

Gateway to the Mountain – Jews on the Mountain

Tale of a Trail | Northern Dead Sea

Sporting with History | Against All Odds

Quick Looks at Books

From the Archives | Fighting the Ministry of Amnesia

Portrait of a People | A Dream Finally Come True

Rivers of Poetry – Uri Zvi Greenberg

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