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Issue 75 | December 2025

Articles

Warner Brothers’ Leading – Harry Warner

Yuval Rivlin

On the eve of World War II, Jews’ domination of Hollywood got political. How Harry Warner’s testimony before the Senate redefined Americanism Yuval Rivlin Harry Warner wasn’t a nice guy. Years of Hollywood wheeling and dealing h

Game of Thrones – Hasmonean Civil War

Ilan Abecassis

The Hasmonean story began with the heroic Hanukka tale but ended in a civil war sparked by two rival royal brothers. Two cultural elites – Pharisee and Sadducee – vied for dominance in the death throes of the Hasmonean dynasty Ilan Abecassi

Clothed in Kindness – Clothing Sabbath

Levi Cooper and Itai Cooper

Teaser: The Jews who dominated Thessaloniki’s garment industry celebrated Hanukka by displaying their best wares – and by ensuring the community’s schoolboys were well clothed for winter. This worthy example spread far and wide  Levi Cooper

Columns

Tale of a Trail | Muristan Market

Tamar HaYardeni

Like the center of a five-pointed star, marked by a fountain and surrounded by storefronts, the Muristan Market in Jerusalem’s Old City draws tourists, garment manufacturers, and serious shoppers alike Tamar HaYardeni Where To?

Book Review | The Many Lives of Anne Frank

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Many Lives of Anne Frank Ruth FranklinJewish Lives series, Yale University Press, 2025424 pages   Is Anne Frank a symbol of Jewish oppression or a universal model of courage in the face of persecution? As v

Book Review | Herod the Great

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World Martin GoodmanJewish Lives series, Yale University Press, 2024227 pages   Martin Goodman begins this masterful chronicle of Herod’s tempestuous life by asking wheth