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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

The Sheriff of Tel Aviv – Meir Dizengoff 

Ilan Shchori

While pioneers enthused over each new furrow plowed, Meir Dizengoff put his heart and soul into building and running the first new Jewish city in millennia – inspired not by the patriarchs, but by the French Riviera Ilan Shchori

Columns

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

Tale of a Trail | Hamat Gader

Tamar HaYardeni

From ancient geological wonder to crocodile spa, Hamat Gader has gone through many incarnations and as many hands. Despite its pagan statues, its hot springs drew even the Talmudic sages  Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Hamat GaderHi

Portrait of a People | Lonely at the Top

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Vladimir Lenin in SmolnyOil on canvas190 x 287 cm1930New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Isaak