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    Issues 51-100

    Issues 51-100

    Old meets new by the Siloam Pool. Illustration using a photograph by Oren Cohen for Megalim Institute, City of David

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  • Orphan of Zionism – Hans Herzl

    Ami Zoran

    The conversion to Christianity of Theodor Herzl’s son Hans shocked the Jewish world. The Jewish press saw the young orphan’s spiritual search as nothing less than a national crisis. His quest for identity made headlines – and inspired a jok

  • Lost to Lebanon – Metula’s Lebanese Fields

    Dotan Goren

    Though founded 130 years ago, Metula remains Israel’s northernmost settlement. How did most of its farmland end up in the Lebanese municipality of Marjayoun? And how did Metula’s residents fight back? Dotan Goren On March 23, 19

  • Aleppo’s Crown Jewels – Aleppo’s Jews

    Leah Bornstein Makovetsky

    Aleppo’s Jewish community was famous for two things: its trading acumen and its biblical codex. Among its sharpest financial minds and its scholars’ most generous supporters were the Francos, Italian merchants who brought the winds of chang

  • Judaizing Zenobia? – Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra

    Haggai Olshanetsky

    At her peak, Empress Zenobia ruled most of the eastern Roman Empire, from the Persian border to Egypt. Several Christian sources mention her conversion to Judaism. Yet did she actually convert? And if so, to what kind of Judaism? Unraveling

  • Self Portrait, Chaim Soutine, circa 1918 | Photo: Bruce M. White, 2014 ARS, New York/ The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, Princeton University Art Museum

    Flesh-and-Blood Artist – Chaim Soutine

    Susan Nashman Fraiman

    Like other Jewish artists drawn to the bright lights of prewar Paris, Chaim Soutine was seeking his destiny, not his fortune. Nevertheless, it was the everyday struggle to survive that marked both his work and his soul – in bold strokes tha

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  • A Day at the Museum | ANU

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    The reborn Museum of the Diaspora has a new name, a new narrative, and a new purpose Sara Jo Ben-Zvi courtesy of ANU Museum of the Jewish People ANUMuseum of the Jewish People Tel Aviv University Campus   Museums have long ceas

  • Sporting with History | Great Catch!

    Reuven Gafni

    The Jewish lawyer and polyglot was hardly your typical baseball star. But that was nowhere near the strangest thing about Moe Berg, sometime secret agent and trivia buff Reuven Gafni Baseball legend Moe (Maurice) Berg spoke seve

  • Portrait of a People | Hope in the Concrete Jungle

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel Cliff DwellersOil on canvas102 x 107 cm1913Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Geor

  • Tale of a Trail | Ades Synagogue

    Tamar HaYardeni

    A tiny architectural jewel nestled within the picturesque jumble of Jerusalem’s Nahlaot neighborhood, the Ades Synagogue preserves the traditional craftsmanship and liturgy of Jewish Aleppo Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Ades Synagog

  • From the Archives | Herzl Online

    Suzanne Berns and Ayelet Hallel Cohen-Orgad

    The Zionist visionary’s diaries are now freely available in the original, hand-written German and French, inviting readers to discover how the movement was born. Surprisingly, not all entries are in Herzl’s hand Suzanne Berns and Ayelet Hal

  • Portrait of a People | Expressionism and the Individual in Early Israeli Art

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel   Self-PortraitIsrael, 1952Oil on canvas Haim Apteker Atar1902–1953Ukraine ExpressionismM

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