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    Issue 64 | March 2023

    Issue 64 | March 2023

    William Hechler | Photo: Imagno/Getty Images

    Articles

  • Dancing to Bar Yohai’s Tomb – Meron Pilgrimage

    Dotan Goren

    Over the centuries, Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai’s grave on Mount Meron has drawn pilgrims in increasing numbers, peaking with both celebrations and controversy on the anniversary of his death. The pre-state procession of musicians and mystics fr

  • Flyleaf of the Frank Haggadah, 1857, showing a rebuilt Jerusalem

    The Unspoken Taboo – Next Year in Jerusalem

    Jonathan D. Sarna

    What prompted a century of American Jews to omit the phrase “Next year in Jerusalem” at the conclusion of their Seder? The aspirations and declarations replacing it speak volumes about American Jewish loyalties, priorities, and conflicts, a

  • Waiting for Elijah – Elijah in the Haggadah

    Chana Shacham-Rosby

    When the Pesach Seder took shape almost two thousand years ago, it made no mention of Elijah the prophet. How did the biblical zealot find his way into the haggadah? Medieval Ashkenazic traditions may hold the key Chana Shacham-Rosby

  • William Hechler introduced Theodor Herzl to Grand Duke Erederick of Baden I Courtesy of Disc-in Ltd. and Friends of Zion Museum

    Evangelical Prophet of Zion – William Hechler

    Yehuda Moraly

    Who would have guessed that the man who crops up most frequently in Theodor Herzl’s diaries was an Evangelical pastor? William Hechler’s religious fervor led him to Zionism, which in turn inspired him to place his many illustrious connectio

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  • Portrait of a People | Mother of Art Therapy

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel Interrrogation IPrague, 1934-38120 X 180 cmOil on woodJewish Museum, Prague Friedl Dicher

  • Tale of a Trail | Heletz

    Tamar HaYardeni

    The dream of discovering a wealth of natural resources beneath the soil of the land of Israel is as old as the state itself. What actually happened when this dream briefly came true and hope burst from the ground of the Negev in a viscous,

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