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    Issue 62 | September 2022

    Issue 62 | September 2022

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    Articles

  • Tourists on the Battlefield – 1929 Arab Riots

    Glenda M. Woolf

    They weren’t partial to either Arabs or Jews. But when a group of British divinity students on a summer pilgrimage to the Holy Land found themselves caught up in Arab attacks on the Jewish population, they helped the Mandate authorities res

  • The transition to Judeo-Arabic cracked open a rabbinic window to the outside world. Muslim Theologian with Quran, Osman Hamdi Bey, 1907 | Courtesy of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

    The Judeo-Arabic Bookshelf – Medieval Judeo-Arabic

    Miriam Goldstein

    The swift spread of seventh-century Islamic conquest united the vast majority of Jews under one empire and language – Arabic – and revolutionized the Jewish bookshelf forever. What became of the jewels of Judeo-Arabic literature? Miriam Gol

  • A sixty-year, richly creative career as a commentator, thinker, leader, and halakhic arbiter. Artist’s impression of Rabbi Moses ben Nahman, a.k.a. Nahmanides | Illustration: Ovadia Benishu

    Agreeing to Disagree – Nahmanides

    Oded Yisraeli

    When Maimonides’ philosophical writings finally reached western Europe in a language its Jews could read, his ideas met with intense and growing opposition. Though the great Jewish leader was deceased by then, Rabbi Moses son of Nahman took

  • B’nai B’rith played a significant part in Jewish Jaffa’s development. Jaffa, sea view, late 19th century | Photo: Felix Bonfils, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

    Jewish Jaffa’s Secret Society – B’nai B’rith in Jaffa

    Ilan Shchori

    Years before Herzl dreamed of a Zionist movement, and well before Tel Aviv was even a dream, B’nai B’rith’s Sha’ar Zion Lodge in Jaffa was hard at work bringing the American organization’s values of Jewish solidarity, progress, and culture

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  • Seal attributed to Nahmanides, discovered in Tel Kisson in 1972 | Courtesy of the Museum of Jewish History, Girona

    Voices of the Past | Rabbi Moses Son of Nahman

    Rabbi Moses Son of Nahman

    Two letters sent by Nahmanides to his sons provide a glimpse of his personal life Nahmanides’ scant surviving personal correspondence includes the following two letters to his sons, Nahman and Shlomo (Solomon).  Writing to Nahman in 1267, h

  • Tale of a Trail | Cave of the Patriarchs

    Tamar HaYardeni

    Generations of rulers and believers have added layers of construction to the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, but mystery still shrouds the original cave’s dark depths  Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Cave of the PatriarchsSacred his

  • From the Archives | Unfinished Business

    Gabriel Alexander

    A portrait Gustav Klimt failed to complete before his death has left a trail across the art world, but how many know the story of the woman portrayed? Her secrets have long lain buried in the archives of the Vienna Jewish community, where t

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