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Lessons from History – One Minute to Midnight

Tova Fish-Rosenberg

An innovative Holocaust education program teaches students to create not just oral history but an intergenerational dialogue passing on the Jewish people’s story and values Tova Fish-Rosenberg Seventeen years ago, as a day schoo

Echoes of Sorrow – Mesopotamian Laments 

Uri Gabbay

Mesopotamian kingdoms rose and fell, but cultic laments of doom remained a constant ritual. What was their purpose, and what can we learn from their echoes in the biblical book of Lamentations? Uri Gabbay Keening – singing prais

Conspiracy or Contagion? – Israel’s Lost Yemenite Children 

Yechiel Michael Barilan

In the early days of the State of Israel, numerous infants born to Yemenite immigrants disappeared after hospitalization. Many families have long suspected that their children were secretly transferred to adoptive families. A new medical st

Breaking the Mold – Edward Brampton

Haggai Olshanetsky

A mariner, a knight, the governor of the Isle of Guernsey, and a nobleman with influence at the English and the Portuguese courts – Edward Brampton, the son of a Jewish blacksmith, defied the so-called strict hierarchy of late medieval soci

Shul or Show? – Golden Age of Cantors 

David Olivestone

The huge popularity of cantorial concerts and records during the first half of the 20th century turned the most talented cantors into celebrities. But did they cross the line from prayer to entertainment? David Olivestone A cent

Columns

Portrait of a People | Touring the Land

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Tiberias, View from the Walls withSafed in the DistanceChalk on paperTiberias, 1839 David

Portrait of a People | Just Visiting

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Jews Mourning in a SynagogueOil on canvas127 x 115 cmLondon, 1906Tate Gallery, London Sir

Tale of a Trail | Muhraka

Tamar HaYardeni

How did the statue of Elijah in the Carmelite monastery on Keren Carmel lose its arm, then regain it? Of Scripture and sculpture Tamar HaYardeni Where To? MuhrakaStatue of Elijah at Keren Carmel Monastery

Voices of the Past | Salomon Steinberger

Salomon Steinberger

Salomon Steinberger was the cantor of a major Frankfurt synagogue for thirty years, until he fled to England in 1939. Having studied in the prestigious Pressburg Yeshiva (then located in today’s Bratislava, Slovakia) while Yossele Rosenblat

Critics | Fighting on Different Fronts

Elka Weber

Hollywood contemporaries Irving Berlin and Ben Hecht lived vastly different Jewish lives, with posterity predictably rewarding the politically correct Berlin and relegating Hecht to relative obscurity Elka Weber Ben Hecht: Figh

From the Archives | Prophecy or Plan?

Yochai Ben-Ghedalia

In the early 1960s, a young teacher named Adin Steinsaltz gave a lecture envisioning a Hasidic revival in Israel. Today, his words seem prophetic – but they were simply a personal plan of action  Yochai Ben-Ghedalia In the State