Home > Issues > 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

Articles

Fleeing Brazil for North America, the conversos’ descendants confronted yet another new world. View of New Amsterdam (today New York), Johannes Vingboons, 1664

The Furthest Refuge – America’s First Jews

Aliza Moreno-Goldschmidt

The expulsion of Spain’s Jews coincided with its discovery of America, with profound consequences for North America’s first Jewish communities. On Sephardic, Ashkenazic, and converso Jews’ first steps in the New World Aliza Moreno-Goldschmi

Nineteenth-century journals regularly included portraits of contributors, such as this likeness of Emma Lazarus, 1889 | Photo: William Courts Engraving: T. Johnson

Lady Liberty’s Jewish Voice – Emma Lazarus

Shira Wolosky

The first to boldly associate the Statue of Liberty with welcoming refugees, Emma Lazarus was also arguably the first public voice of American Zionism. Her work raises questions of identity we still struggle with today Shira Wolosky

Though originally an American Jewish initiative, HIAS branched out into Europe to provide vital support for the waves of Jewish emigration between the two world wars. HIAS offices in Munich | Courtesy of the American Jewish Historical Society archives

HIAS’ Helping Hand – The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society

Gur Alroey

For much of the 20th century, the vast majority of the Jewish people was homeless. Jews were constantly on the move, sometimes in search of a living, sometimes just to survive. The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society was always there for them, and

Clippings from Cohn and son’s missionary publications

Mission Unaccomplished – Leopold Cohn

Menachem Keren-Kratz

Though Leopold Cohn encouraged Jews to convert to Christianity, he urged them to retain their Jewish identity as well. Helping Jewish immigrants and fighting anti-Semitism stayed high on his agenda – and remain so for the many Christian org

Making Jews Count – Jewish Demographics

Michelle Shain

Where is the critical mass of the Jewish people, and why does it matter? How do different perceptions of Jewishness affect the count? Disputing Jewish population estimates for Israel and the United States Michelle Shain Which co

Lessons from History – One Minute to Midnight

Tova Fish-Rosenberg

An innovative Holocaust education program teaches students to create not just oral history but an intergenerational dialogue passing on the Jewish people’s story and values Tova Fish-Rosenberg Seventeen years ago, as a day schoo