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Jewish as Can Be

Rachel Gordan

Are New York’s Jews opting for more Judaism or less? Is their Jewishness nothing more than bagels and lox, or is the growing visibility of ultra- Orthodox communities an indication of future trends? Rachel Gordan In 1946 a young

No Business Like Show Business

Yuval Rivlin

Broadway was a springboard to integration for talented Jewish arrivals from Europe, yet their musicals’ immigrant themes are unmistakable Yuval Rivlin When asked to define modern Jewish identity, Sigmund Freud often responded wi

Ticket to Riches

Rebecca Kobrin

The waves of migration from eastern Europe did not simply ebb and flow. Orchestrated by the entrepreneurial spirit of the likes of Sender Jarmulowsky, they created surges of capital. The trade in ship tickets changed individual fortunes as

My Son, the Gangster

Robert Rockaway

New York’s Jewish gangsters lived fast and furious. Exploiting the criminal opportunities created by Prohibition, they masterminded a network of crime that spread far beyond New York and earned their fellow Jews’ scorn – and admiration Robe

Torah From Sidon – Lebanon War

Itamar Brenner

Israeli paratroopers came home from the Lebanon War having lost a friend and gained an ancient Torah scroll. The tale of Danny Brenner and the hidden sefer Torah of Sidon Itamar Brenner Israel’s Operation Peace for Galilee (June

New Life Among The Ruins – Jewish Quarter

Barak Brenner

With the reunification of Jerusalem, Jews could once again dwell in the Old City. But Jordanian occupation had destroyed the Jewish Quarter, and rebuilding required funding and organization on a national scale. A group of young soldiers – b

De-Classified Comments

Itamar Brenner

Fifty years after the Six-Day War and the reunification of Jerusalem, Israel’s state archives released the government protocols and stenographic records from the war. These choice quotations from the Ministerial Committee on National Securi

Zohar Unzipped

Yehuda Yifrach

  Outside the Box The Zohar is structured as a commentary on the Torah, divided into sections corresponding to the weekly portion. The commentaries in the Zohar are traditionally believed to have been handed down from Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai

Z-rated: For Forties Plus – The Zohar

Yehuda Yifrach

The secret of the Zohar's allure seems to be in its novel ideas and the challenging concept of freedom that it proffers – the freedom to interpret anew, to imagine, to initiate and develop. The challenge posed to orthodox thought by its sex

Mystery of the Zohar

Yehuda Yifrach

Since the secret oral traditions of the Kabbala were first committed to parchment in the 13th century, the controversy has raged fast and furious. Who wrote the Zohar? And why? Yehuda Yifrach In 1286 the Jewish world was in tur

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Portrait of a People | Painter of Jerusalem

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Jerusalem in SnowOil on canvas, 192741 x 61 cmPrivate collection Ludwig Blum1891-1974 Im