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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

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

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

Sky-Heist – Aircraft Smuggling

Tamar HaYardeni

In a daring smuggling operation right out of Hollywood, four bombers arrived in Israel just in time to make a crucial contribution to its War of Independence. There was even a script featuring a seasoned Jewish pilot and a New Zealand beaut

A Soul Divided – Heinrich Heine

Asael Abelman

Though baptized at age twenty-eight, Heinrich Heine remained torn between Judaism and German nationalism, tradition and modernity Asael Abelman Poet, freedom fighter, and cosmopolitan in exile, Heinrich Heine bore the burden of

Columns

Tale of a Trail | The Underground Prisoners’ Museum

Tamar HaYardeni

“Bevingrad” was the highest-security British prison in the Middle East, but that didn’t stop Jewish paramilitaries from lying through their teeth and crawling through its sewers in a daring escape Tamar HaYardeni Where To? The U

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

From the Archives | With Thanks from Damascus

Yochai Ben-Ghedalia

Not only community leaders suffered interrogation and humiliation in the Damascus Affair – so did their wives. Their letter of thanks recently came to light  Yochai Ben-Ghedalia On February 5, 1840, Father Thomas, a Capuchin mon

From the Archives | A Widow in Print

Channa Lockshin Bob

The publication of a landmark code of Jewish law attests to a widow’s grit and determination in the face of recurring tragedy Channa Lockshin Bob The dawn of Hebrew printing naturally followed hot on the heels of the earliest bo