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ד”ר דוקר בהר־טוב, שנות השלושים של המאה העשרים. ברקע שרידי המושבה הר־טוב, קיץ 194

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The Hasid From Prague – Jiří Langer

Levi Cooper

What led a young, acculturated Jew from Prague to seek guidance at the court of the Bełz Hasidic master? What brought this spiritual seeker back to his hometown and then to Tel Aviv? And how was that journey linked to this poet’s homosexual

Royal Convert – Queen Helene of Adiabene

Tal Ilan

Even antiquity had its celebrity culture, with intellectuals chronicling the lives of the famous. The conversion of an entire royal family to Judaism thus fascinated both the sages and Josephus, who recorded the wondrous deeds of Helene, Mo

Lay of the Land – Ashtori Ha-parhi

Amichay Schwartz

Using skills honed over generations, 14th-century scholar Ashtori Ha-parhi wandered the length and breadth of the biblical land of Israel, quadrant in hand, resolving issues that had long troubled the Jewish world Amichay Schwartz

The Christian Search for China’s Jews – Jews of Kaifeng

Noam Urbach

What prompted the first Anglican bishop in China to seek out the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng? And why for centuries were missionaries the only ones to transmit word of these Jews westward? Noam Urbach In 1850, a radical

Joining Forces – Ultra-Orthodox Soliders

Moshe Ehrnvald

Though Israel’s ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students have long been exempt from military service, they weren’t always. In the struggle to secure what became the Jewish state, this camp’s rabbis and public figures were clear that their followers

With All Their Might – Kibbutz Ovadia in Slawków

Yochanan Ben-Yaacov

Kibbutz Ovadia’s unique blend of “Torah and Avoda,” learning and labor, served as a model for religious kibbutzim forming in prestate Israel and beyond – but the demands of this Polish Jewish collective experiment took their toll Yochanan B