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Issues 51-100

Articles

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

Singlehanded – Yosef Trumpeldor

Amit Assis

Though most famous as the one-armed defender of Tel Hai, Yosef Trumpeldor was also a Russian patriot, dentist, and pre-kibbutz pioneer of agricultural collectives in the land of Israel. He also cofounded the Jewish Legion, which fought with

Shtetl at Sea – Knesset Israel Illegal Immigration Ship

Mordechay Saar Marmorstein

The SS Knesset Israel set sail to break the British blockade barring Holocaust survivors from the land of Israel. Packed with young and old from all walks of life, this floating shtetl defied His Majesty’s imperial fleet Mordechay Saar Marm

Reconstructing Hadassah – Hadassah Kaplan

Sharon Ann Musher

How were the feminist and Zionist aspects of Reconstructionist Judaism influenced by founder Mordecai Kaplan’s experience of raising four daughters? And when the second, Hadassah, spent a year in British Mandate Palestine, how did her trave

Progress or Truth – American Yiddish Press

Ehud Manor

Two socialist Yiddish papers vied for American readers at the turn of the 20th century. Arguing over both purpose and politics, Di varhayt and Forverts engaged in a battle of wits only one would survive Ehud Manor Jewish immigra

Seder Under Siege – Seder in Jerusalem 1948

Moshe Ehrnvald

As the sun set on the British Mandate and rose over the new State of Israel, civil war raged between Arabs and Jews. Jerusalem’s hundred thousand Jewish residents prepared to celebrate Pesach under siege, unsure whether they were headed for

Seeking The Hidden Face Of God – Hillel Zeitlin

Shraga Bar-On

Though he saw the Jewish people as trapped in a fatal, dead-end existence, writer Hillel Zeitlin labored to bring redemption. Struggling with doubt, he kept hoping and praying, wrestling with contradictions to create a role model that – des

Columns

Voices of the Past | Hadassah Kaplan

Hadassah Kaplan

Hadassah Kaplan wrote the following letter to her father in Hebrew during her stay in Jerusalem in 1933, in response to his question of whether she recommended his relocating there  Hadassah Kaplan Dear Father, When I received y

Book Review | Promised Lands

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Promised LandsHadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine Sharon Ann Musher New York University, 2025, 261 pages   Sharon Ann Musher’s detailed analysis of her g

Portrait of a People | Chilling Testimony

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel The Slave TradeOil on canvas162 x 229 cmParis, circa 1840Wilberforce House Museum,Hull, En

Tale of a trail | Monastery of the Cross

Tamar HaYardeni

In a picturesque valley dividing Israel’s parliament and government offices from Jerusalem’s ritzier areas, an ancient monastery nestles within a small nature reserve. Traces of hidden treasure, desperate struggle, and daring heroes are sai