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    Issues 51-100

    Issues 51-100

    In whatever capacity he served, Levi Eshkol consistently prioritized water projects. Levi Eshkol | Courtesy of Yad Levi Eshkol

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  • What can we learn from the divided steps leading down into this mikveh? Ancient ritual bath below the Temple Mount | Photo: Rudko

    Pure Life – Ancient Ritual Baths

    Eyal Regev

    Recently discovered ancient mikveh installations suggest that they were used much more than required by Jewish law. What can archaeology teach us about the role of ritual purity in our ancestors’ everyday lives? Eyal Regev Can m

  • The focal point of every new settlement. Children by a water tower in Kfar Vitkin (near Netanya), 1935

    Reaching for the Sky – Water Towers

    Tehila Bigman

    Water towers have long been one of the most obvious landmarks of Zionist settlements, often becoming a focus of civic pride as well. What made these clumsy-looking utilities local icons? Tehila Bigman Water towers have been arou

  • Why Is This Passover Different? – Ethiopian Pesach

    Sharon Shalom

    How does Ethiopian Jewry’s observance of Pesach differ from that of most Jews, and why? Are these differences a function of this community’s historic isolation or a matter of principle? And what can they teach us about the nature of Jewish

  • Building Zion the Bauhaus Way – Zionist Architecture

    Tamar HaYardeni

    How did the International Style, associated primarily with the Bauhaus school, become the signature look of Zionist construction? Tamar HaYardeni Creating a state isn’t easy. For one thing, it requires a clear understanding of t

  • Gateway to the Mountain – Jews on the Mountain

    Ben Shragge

    Between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, the Jews of Derbent clung to their unique culture despite invaders, revolution, and civil war. Largely uprooted by 20th-century challenges, they still preserve the memory of the town they

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  • From the Archives | The Wehrmacht’s Jewish Soldier

    Janne Moehring

    How did Walter Dirr, born to a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, come to be drafted into Hitler’s army? Clues from a family archive Janne Moehring The curious case of Walter Dirr begins with his father, Robert Heinrich Dirr (

  • Portrait of a People | Spreading Palms

    Yael Mali

    Yael Mali The date palm has long been one of the Holy Land’s agricultural and economic mainstays – and an emblem of its rise and fall

  • From the Archives | Hasidim at Heart

    Dani Hacker and Tanya Regev

    What do Israel’s third president, businessman and publisher Salman Schocken, and Breslov Hasidic leader Rabbi Yisroel Dov Ber Odesser have in common? A pamphlet distributed in Jerusalem connects them all Dani Hacker and Tanya Regev

  • Tale of a Trail | Mikveh Israel

    Tamar HaYardeni

    Jules Védrines was the first to fly to the Holy Land, though he skipped Jerusalem. But what made the famous pilot miss his designated landing at Mikveh Israel? Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Mikveh IsraelThe temporary landing strip b

  • Tale of a Trail | Northern Dead Sea

    Tamar HaYardeni

    Though the planet’s lowest point might sound like hell on earth, a few crazy dreamers discovered its heavenly promise of health and beauty. The story of Dead Sea Works’ rise from the sands Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Northern Dead

  • Sporting with History | Against All Odds

    Haim Kaufmann

    Though the 1936 Berlin Olympics are perhaps best remembered for black runner Jesse Owens’ stunning victories, Jewish athletes’ achievements proved equally embarrassing for Hitler Haim Kaufmann In 1931, Germany was selected to ho

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