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Issue 28 | October 2015

Articles

Mystery of The Disappearing Port – Caesarea Maritima

Jacob Sharvit

Of all King Herod’s grandiose projects, the port of Caesarea was the most ambitious, especially from an engineering point of view. Why did Herod build it where there was no natural bay, and how did the port disappear in just one generation?

The Battle on the Hill – San Simon

Yeshurun Fisher

Bitter and bloody, the battle for Jerusalem’s San Simon Monastery in 1948 was etched deeply into the memories of all who fought there. Their bravery and self-sacrifice forged the founding ethos of the Israel Defense Forces Yeshurun Fisher

Columns

From the Archives | Damned If You Do

Elizabeth Levin

Correspondence by and about a Jewish U.S. Army chaplain working in Dachau reveals a hero battling bureaucracy to help his fellow Jews Elizabeth Levin Germany’s surrender to the Allied forces in May 1945 marked the official end o