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    Issue 61 | May 2022

    Issue 61 | May 2022

    Jews and Muslims at the Cotton Merchants' Gate, leading to the Dome of the Rock. At the Entrance to the Temple Mount, Gustav Bauernfeind, oil on canvas, 1886

    Articles

  • Gateway to the Mountain – Jews on the Mountain

    Ben Shragge

    Between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, the Jews of Derbent clung to their unique culture despite invaders, revolution, and civil war. Largely uprooted by 20th-century challenges, they still preserve the memory of the town they

  • Why did Jews forsake the Temple Mount in favor of the Western Wall? Praying by the wall, 1894 | Photo: Felix Bonfil

    Uphill Battle – Temple Mount: Modern Jewish Attitudes

    Dotan Goren

    Today most Jews visiting the Temple Mount are religious and of a certain stripe, but when the site opened to non-Muslims in the mid-19th century, it was generally secular Jewish tourists who seized the opportunity to connect with their nati

  • No society could embrace all the contradictory aspects of his character. Jacob Israel de Haan | Photo: Dr. Moshe Wallach’s Archive

    Murder in the Holy City – Jacob Israel de Haan

    Pini Dunner

    Though Jacob de Haan’s assassination at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center shocked the Jewish world, the victim himself elicited little direct sympathy. What prompted London-based rabbi and maverick journalist Joseph Sh

  • Columns

  • Tale of a Trail | Northern Dead Sea

    Tamar HaYardeni

    Though the planet’s lowest point might sound like hell on earth, a few crazy dreamers discovered its heavenly promise of health and beauty. The story of Dead Sea Works’ rise from the sands Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Northern Dead

  • Sporting with History | Against All Odds

    Haim Kaufmann

    Though the 1936 Berlin Olympics are perhaps best remembered for black runner Jesse Owens’ stunning victories, Jewish athletes’ achievements proved equally embarrassing for Hitler Haim Kaufmann In 1931, Germany was selected to ho

  • Quick Looks at Books

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism | The Wealthy Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative

  • From the Archives | Fighting the Ministry of Amnesia

    Ilya Vovshin

    Aaron Krikheli immersed himself in recording the history and culture of Georgia’s Jews just as the powers that be set about obliterating Jewish identity throughout the Soviet Union. One man’s struggle against officially mandated amnesia Ily

  • Portrait of a People | A Dream Finally Come True

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel The LashGouache25 x 17.5 cmTbilisi, 1939Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi Shalom Koboshv

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