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    Issue 78 | September 2026

    Issue 78 | September 2026

    Jewish resistance during the 1881 pogroms | Illustration: Ovadia Benishu

    Articles

  • Harry Truman holding the Torah scroll given him by Chaim Weizmann on the latter’s first visit to the White House as president of the State of Israel, late spring 1948 | Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images

    The Flying Torah – Harry Truman’s Torah

    Joel Peerless

    A Torah scroll sounds like a superlative gift for the first world statesman to recognize the State of Israel. But what exactly made the Torah scroll presented by Chaim Weizmann to Harry S. Truman so special? Joel Peerless On May

  • Press reports on the anticipated absorption of Vizhnitz yeshiva students into the IDF

    Service with a Shtreimel – Vizhnitz Village

    Levi Cooper

    Despite their leaders’ current vitriol against army service, Vizhnitz Hasidim once provided living proof that today’s efforts to engage the Haredi community with national priorities are by no means unprecedented. As early as 1959, Vizhnitz

    • Columns

  • Book & Film Review

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Miracle: The Boys Who Escaped the Gas Chamber in Auschwitz Michael Calvin with Naftali Schiff2026, 233 pages   Undeniable: The Untold Story of the Boys Who Escaped Gas Chamber 5 Jonathan KalmusJRoots Films, 20

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