Today most people buy their matza in the supermarket, but before machine-made matza was invented, there were almost as many types of matza as there were Jewish communities. And when war made Passover necessities hard to come by, creative so
From the creative team behind it right down to its story line, the first talking film couldn’t have been more Jewish. The protagonist of The Jazz Singer was the latest in a long line of Jewish cantors
Yuval Rivlin
There’s an old
The product of two worlds, New Christian Diogo Pires secretly delved into Jewish mysticism even as he rose through the ranks of Portuguese society. Then a visitor from the kingdom of the ten lost tribes of Israel tipped him over into outrig
Though physical help was largely beyond their power, Jewish religious leaders in the Holocaust sought to ease their followers’ spiritual pain, saving Judaism as well as Jews
Isaac Hershkowitz
The Holocaust challenged the humanit
Fact and fiction intertwine in the tale of Jerusalem’s historic Tiferet Israel Synagogue, which tipped its hat to Austria’s Kaiser Franz Joseph
Tamar HaYardeni
For the Middle East, 1869 was a critical year: after much planning a
Was Marc Chagall a painter first, or a Jew? Despite personal protestations to the contrary, and the unique fusion of Cubism, folk art, and Fauvism he created, Chagall’s life and work speak louder than his words
Yemima Hovav
Stan
