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Festivals of Freedom – Jailed Chabad Leaders

Netanel Lederberg

The horrors of imprisonment in czarist and Stalinist Russia were seared into the memory of all who survived their sentences. Few, however, celebrated their release as joyously as the Lubavitcher rebbes, whose followers mark these occasions

Tel Aviv’s Not-So-Black Hats – Hasidic Tel Aviv

Menachem Keren-Kratz

The city that never sleeps might now epitomize secular Israel, but for decades it was the country’s Hasidic capital – and Zionist too! Menachem Keren-Kratz Shoppers on Tel Aviv’s fashionable Shenkin Street and high-tech workers

The Hasidic Track – Hasidic Train Line

Ze’ev Kitsis

Change followed swiftly in the wake of the railway, making the steam engine’s power and speed synonymous with modernity. Yet the ostensibly conservative Hasidic movement eagerly embraced the noisy, crowded carriages of train travel. New way

Old Sparks, New Vessels – Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov 

Roee Horen

Hasidism’s emergence at the dawn of modernity – and the movement’s subsequent, unprecedented success – can be attributed to Rabbi Israel Ba’al Shem Tov’s skillful use of surprising sources to weave innovation into the fabric of Jewish tradi

Counting the Hours – Measuring Time

Eshbal Ratzon

Way back when man began marking time, the natural unit of choice was the day. When did people begin breaking days into hours, and why were some hours longer than others? And if an Egyptian, a Babylonian, and a Jew arranged to meet, who woul

Zionist History by Numbers – Israeli Immigration

Hizky Shoham

The waves of Jewish immigration to land of Israel in the 19th and early 20th centuries are known as the First Aliya, the Second, and so on. But did these numbers always mean what they do today?  Hizky Shoham Modern Zionist

Eye on the Crescent – Muslim Calendar

Tehila Bigman

For Jews, declaring the new moon based on eyewitness testimony is ancient history. But the Muslim calendar still depends on this method, generating increasing controversy Tehila Bigman Religious power struggles have frequently m

Going with the Flow – Levi Eshkol

Arnon Lammfromm

Arguably Israel’s least charismatic leader, Levi Eshkol nonetheless translated his management and coordination skills into real achievements in agriculture, settlement, and – above all – harnessing the country’s scant water resources Arnon

Columns

A Day at the Museum | L. A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art

Amit Assis

The precious clocks in Jerusalem’s L. A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art chronicle Europe’s fascination with timekeeping, making it portable, beautiful, fanciful, even political – but above all, precise  Amit Assis L. A. Mayer Mus

From the Archives | Light-Years Ahead

Franziska Ehmer

Eccentric amateur scientist Elazar Mei-Zahav was way ahead of his time. He died unrecognized, but his ideas live on Franziska Ehmer “Don’t just throw away this empty box!” This pithy appeal, intended as part of an advertising ca

Book Review | Revolution in Paradise

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Yehuda Moraly’s examination of French cinema under German occupation reveals an uncomfortable subtext its creators have tried to erase Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Revolution in Paradise: Veiled Representations of Jewish Characters in the C