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    Issue 77 | June 2026

    Issue 77 | June 2026

    Theodor Herzl with his children, Hans, Paulina, and Trude, 1900 | Photo: Israel National Photo Collection

    Articles

  • Orphan of Zionism – Hans Herzl

    Ami Zoran

    The conversion to Christianity of Theodor Herzl’s son Hans shocked the Jewish world. The Jewish press saw the young orphan’s spiritual search as nothing less than a national crisis. His quest for identity made headlines – and inspired a jok

  • Lost to Lebanon – Metula’s Lebanese Fields

    Dotan Goren

    Though founded 130 years ago, Metula remains Israel’s northernmost settlement. How did most of its farmland end up in the Lebanese municipality of Marjayoun? And how did Metula’s residents fight back? Dotan Goren On March 23, 19

  • Aleppo’s Crown Jewels – Aleppo’s Jews

    Leah Bornstein Makovetsky

    Aleppo’s Jewish community was famous for two things: its trading acumen and its biblical codex. Among its sharpest financial minds and its scholars’ most generous supporters were the Francos, Italian merchants who brought the winds of chang

  • Judaizing Zenobia? – Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra

    Haggai Olshanetsky

    At her peak, Empress Zenobia ruled most of the eastern Roman Empire, from the Persian border to Egypt. Several Christian sources mention her conversion to Judaism. Yet did she actually convert? And if so, to what kind of Judaism? Unraveling

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  • Book Review | Edmond de Rothschild: Finding Zion

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Edmond de Rothschild: Finding Zionby James McAuley Jewish Lives series, Yale University Press2026, 305 pages   McAuley’s well-researched biography of the “well-known benefactor,” as Edmond de Rothschild was ter

  • Tale of a Trail | Ades Synagogue

    Tamar HaYardeni

    A tiny architectural jewel nestled within the picturesque jumble of Jerusalem’s Nahlaot neighborhood, the Ades Synagogue preserves the traditional craftsmanship and liturgy of Jewish Aleppo Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Ades Synagog

  • From the Archives | Herzl Online

    Suzanne Berns and Ayelet Hallel Cohen-Orgad

    The Zionist visionary’s diaries are now freely available in the original, hand-written German and French, inviting readers to discover how the movement was born. Surprisingly, not all entries are in Herzl’s hand Suzanne Berns and Ayelet Hal

  • Portrait of a People | Expressionism and the Individual in Early Israeli Art

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel   Self-PortraitIsrael, 1952Oil on canvas Haim Apteker Atar1902–1953Ukraine ExpressionismM

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