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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...

ArticlesIssue 47 | April 2019

Lords of the Desert – Nabateans

Tamar HaYardeni

After dominating the desert landscape of the Middle East and controlling the immensely profitable Incense Route for almost thirteen hundred years, the Nabateans and their fabled wealth disappeared into the shifting sands. What brought down...

ArticlesIssue 33 | August 2016

Voices of the Past | Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Upon learning that every last Jew there had been murdered by the Nazis, Agnon set about recreating Buczacz in all its vibrancy, from its heyday as a seat of Jewish learning until the day its...

ColumnsIssue 63 | December 2022

Quick Looks at Books

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish | An Unchosen People | Jews and Their Roman Rivals | The 36 Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Categorically Jewish, Distinctly PolishPolish Jewish History Reflected and Refracted Moshe RosmanLittman Library of Jewish Civilization,...

ColumnsIssue 63 | December 2022

Tale of a Trail | Herodium National Park

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Why did Herod bury his architectural masterpiece and final resting place, and who discovered it? Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Where To? Herodium National Park Herzl has Herzliya, Montefiore has the Jerusalem neighborhood of Yemin Moshe,...

ColumnsIssue 63 | December 2022

Portrait of a People | Shadowlight

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Bezalel SchoolA fusion of Oriental artand Meir Gur Arieh (Gorodetsky)1891-1951 HoraPapercut, illustration for The Pioneers (He-halutzim) by Moshe NarkisJerusalem, 1925 Meir Gur Arieh (Gorodetsky) was born in White Russia in 1891, arriving with...

ColumnsIssue 63 | December 2022

Critics | Iron Woman of Yom Kippur

Amit Assis and Sara Jo Ben Zvi

Fifty years after the war whose losses tarnished her legacy forever, Golda Meir is the subject of a new film and biography. Surprisingly, both the Israeli and American perspectives – zooming in on the war...

ColumnsIssue 66 | December 2023

A Day at the Museum | Tower of David Museum

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

The accessibility project that has transformed Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum over the past three years is no mere facelift. The fortress itself now takes center stage, serving as a gateway to the city of...

ColumnsIssue 66 | December 2023

Tale of a Trail | Lake Yeruham

Tamar HaYardeni

Lack of water was one of the young State of Israel’s greatest challenges. Though desalinization has made that issue history, the story of Lake Yeruham reflects the state’s changing attitude toward water over the years...

ColumnsIssue 66 | December 2023

Portrait of a People | Window to the Sabbath

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Sabbath Rest, Samuel Hirszenberg, Warsaw, 1894 | Courtesy of Ben Uri Gallery, London Sabbath Afternoon London, 1910–1177.5 X 77.5 cmOil on canvasBen Uri Gallery, London Alfred (Aaron) Wolmark1877–1961 Post-ImpressionismA primarily French movement that rejected...

ColumnsIssue 66 | December 2023

Jewish Jaffa’s Secret Society – B’nai B’rith in Jaffa

Ilan Shchori

Years before Herzl dreamed of a Zionist movement, and well before Tel Aviv was even a dream, B’nai B’rith’s Sha’ar Zion Lodge in Jaffa was hard at work bringing the American organization’s values of Jewish...

ArticlesIssue 62 | September 2022

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Divinely Plagued – Wolff Haggada

Lords of the Desert – Nabateans

Voices of the Past | Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Quick Looks at Books

Tale of a Trail | Herodium National Park

Portrait of a People | Shadowlight

Critics | Iron Woman of Yom Kippur

A Day at the Museum | Tower of David Museum

Tale of a Trail | Lake Yeruham

Portrait of a People | Window to the Sabbath

Jewish Jaffa’s Secret Society – B’nai B’rith in Jaffa

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Issues

Divinely Plagued – Wolff Haggada

Lords of the Desert – Nabateans

Voices of the Past | Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Quick Looks at Books

Tale of a Trail | Herodium National Park

Portrait of a People | Shadowlight

Critics | Iron Woman of Yom Kippur

A Day at the Museum | Tower of David Museum

Tale of a Trail | Lake Yeruham

Portrait of a People | Window to the Sabbath

Jewish Jaffa’s Secret Society – B’nai B’rith in Jaffa

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