Home > Issues > Issues 1-50

    Issues 1-50

    Issues 1-50

    Articles

    Columns

  • Book Review | Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto

    Elka Weber

    Seventy years after the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Moshe Arens’ book recalls the forgotten fighters who did not live to tell their story Elka Weber Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprisingby Mos

  • Book Review | Moynihan’s Moment

    ספיר

    Musings on history, alternative history, and theology based on the surprising final scene of Tarantino’s film. ספיר Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight against Zionism as RacismGil Troy Oxford University Press,2013, 358 pages O

  • Book Review | Koren Talmud Bavli, Berakhot

    Michael Goldblum

     A new annotated translation of the Talmud is not just more of the same, but signifies a departure in Talmud study, inviting engaged discussion instead of enshrining tradition Michael Goldblum Koren Talmud Bavli, BerakhotCommen

  • Film review | The Iron Lady

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    Margaret Thatcher’s career is worthy of a more deserving tribute than a film about Alzheimer’s Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Iron Lady Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, 2011   It seems a terrible pity, if one must make a film about Alzheimer’

  • Book Review | Demonic Desires

    Shai Secunda

    The lustful demon of the Babylonian Talmud gamely withstands all scholarly attempts at rehabilitation Shai Secunda Demonic Desires“Yetzer Hara” and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity Ishay Rosen-ZviUniversity of Pennsylvani

  • Portrait of a People | Painting from Life

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel   Self-PortraitMilan, 1690121 X 95 cmOil on canvasMuseum of Fine Arts, Budapest Salomon

  • Ruins Revisited | Samaria (Sebastia)

    Assaf Avraham

    Royal capital of the northern kingdom of Israel until its destruction Where? Northwest of Shekhem (Nablus)When? First Temple, Roman period Assaf Avraham Photo: Zev Radovan And Ahab son of Omri ruled Israel in Samaria twenty-two

  • From the Archives | Not Crying for Argentina

    Denise Rein

    Which Syrian Jews begging to resettle in Argentina intended to stay there, and which just wanted out of Syria? The answers lie in the welfare organizations’ archives Denise Rein The mass Jewish emigration from Russia and Poland

  • Tale of a Trail | Kibbutz Tirat Zvi

    Tamar HaYardeni

    What saved Kibbutz Tirat Zvi – and especially its children – from General Fawzi al- Qawuqji’s Arab Salvation Army in the months before the declaration of the State of Israel? Tamar HaYardeni Where To? War of Independence memoria

  • Quick Looks at Books

    Elka Weber

    The Legacy | The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination, 1938–89 | Dirty Jewess | Writing on the Wall Elka Weber The Legacy Melanie PhillipsBombardier Books, 201

  • Post-Script | Village Mail

    Itamar Atzmon

    In the early Zionist villages, postal services were under European auspices but had their own unique flavor – until the Turks cracked down Itamar Atzmon The first Jewish agricultural colonies were established in the Holy Land in

Feel free to share

You may also be interested in

Accessibility