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    Issue 66 | December 2023

    Issue 66 | December 2023

    Persian physician al-Razi examining a child, by Hossein Behzad, 20th century, Iran

    Articles

  • The Medical Legion – Medicine at Masada

    Yonatan Lukimson

    Ancient Rome owed its military superiority partly to innovative medical treatment of its soldiers. Fascinating evidence of a well-oiled health care system has been discovered at the site of the besieging Roman army’s field hospital at Masad

  • Doctor without Borders – Miriam Duker

    Yeshurun Fisher

    One of a handful of Jewish women completing medical school despite Russian quotas, Miriam Duker served prestate Israel’s remote communities through thick and thin, extending medical care even to neighboring Arabs Yeshurun Fisher

  • First among Physicians – Ibn Jumay’

    Amir Mazor

    Saladin’s personal physician and Maimonides’ friend, Hibat Allah ibn Zayn ibn Jumay‘ left a colorful paper trail of Arabic medical works and fragmentary documents from the Cairo Geniza. Discovering an unsung Jewish hero Amir Mazor

  • Doctor Plotter – Roderigo Lopez

    David Lawrence-Young

    Elizabethan England was newly freed from Spanish dominance when Roderigo Lopez found shelter there from the Portuguese Inquisition. This Jewish doctor took grave risks to protect his new queen from Spanish conspirators – or was he in fact a

    • Columns

  • Critics | Iron Woman of Yom Kippur

    Amit Assis and Sara Jo Ben Zvi

    Fifty years after the war whose losses tarnished her legacy forever, Golda Meir is the subject of a new film and biography. Surprisingly, both the Israeli and American perspectives – zooming in on the war and out on a career spanning five d

  • A Day at the Museum | Tower of David Museum

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    The accessibility project that has transformed Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum over the past three years is no mere facelift. The fortress itself now takes center stage, serving as a gateway to the city of faiths  Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

  • Tale of a Trail | Lake Yeruham

    Tamar HaYardeni

    Lack of water was one of the young State of Israel’s greatest challenges. Though desalinization has made that issue history, the story of Lake Yeruham reflects the state’s changing attitude toward water over the years Tamar HaYardeni

  • Portrait of a People | Window to the Sabbath

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel Sabbath Rest, Samuel Hirszenberg, Warsaw, 1894 | Courtesy of Ben Uri Gallery, London

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