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    The privilege of duty free imports from Bruges was the key to Brampton’s rise to riches. City panorama, detail from Seven Wonders of Bruges, Pieter Claeissens the Elder, ca. 1555 | Begijnhof Collection, Bruges

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  • Evasive Action – Building the Second Temple

    Yaakov Medan

    The Second Temple was begun with a building permit from the Persian empire, but when it was rescinded the exiles found creative ways to continue construction. The "illegal" building they erected inspired later generations in their heroic st

  • Photographs: Avital Vibran

    Back to Czernowitz – Uncovering Jewish Culture

    Daphna Yizrael

    Once a Jewish hub with an international ambiance, now a Ukrainian provincial capital: a group of Israeli youths searching for the vestiges of Czernowitz’s Jewish glory found spectacular murals in what is today an Evangelical church. Daphna

  • Tel Aviv’s Unsung Heroes

    Nir Mann

    "Tel Aviv is at the flicks", mocks the song from 1948, describing the functioning of the first Hebrew city during the War of Independence. But the reality was quite different: Tel Aviv, the heart of the Jewish Yishuv, dispatched a dispropor

  • Shlomo Moussaieff’s Antiquities – Solomon’s Treasures

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    Stepping into the world of Shlomo Moussaieff's antiquities collection at his home in Herzliya is more like walking into a magical Aladdin's cave than a neatly categorized museum. His fascinating – and controversial – collection revolves aro

  • Bar Kokhba – The Fighters’ Antique

    Nir Rachkovsky

    Rappelling to access hidden passages within the depths of the Te'omim cave, archeologists discovered a treasure trove of coins from the Bar Kokhba revolt. The greatest surprise was one peruta, a small bronze coin minted hundreds of years be

  • The Hope of Israel – Menasseh Ben Israel

    Henry Goldblum

    Inspired by rumors of the Lost Ten Tribes, he sought to fulfill the age-old vision of redemption by scattering his people to the very ends of the earth. Rembrandt von Rijn, Baruch Spinoza, and Oliver Cromwell, all path-breakers in the cultu

  • Voice Behind the Iron Curtain – Nehama Lipshitz

    Zvi Golany

    Opera singer Nehama Lipshitz defied the Soviets not just by performing in Yiddish and Hebrew but by collaborating with Israeli undercover agencies in the USSR Zvi Golany Deep in the Soviet Union, where any public demonstration o

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  • Tale of a Trail | Kfar Hasidim

    Tamar HaYardeni

    Who exactly were the Hasidic devotees who gave Kfar Hasidim its name? What led them to leave Poland and settle beside the secular Zionist farmers of Nahalal? A Hasidic tale from the Zebulun Valley Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Kfar

  • Book Review | The autobiography of Solomon Maimon

    Elka Weber

    Solomon Maimon’s translation of his role model’s Guide for the Perplexed lies at the heart of his autobiography, attesting to his stubborn quest for knowledge above all Elka Weber The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon:The Complet

  • Book Review | The Book of Exodus

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Book of ExodusA Biography Joel S. BadenPrinceton University Press, 2019,237 pages What can Princeton University’s Lives of Great Religious Books series possibly add to the reams al

  • Crowds accompanying the ashes from Austrian concentration camps as Kahane brought them to Mt. Zion

    Voices of the Past | Shmuel Zanwil Kahane

    Shmuel Zanwil Kahane

    S. Z. Kahane possessed a keen sense of history. Enormous changes had overtaken the Jewish people, demanding a narrative beyond the dry and factual. Drawing on the wellsprings of classic Jewish exegetical literature, Kahane penned myths of I

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