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Articles

The Sheriff of Tel Aviv – Meir Dizengoff 

Ilan Shchori

While pioneers enthused over each new furrow plowed, Meir Dizengoff put his heart and soul into building and running the first new Jewish city in millennia – inspired not by the patriarchs, but by the French Riviera Ilan Shchori

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

Tale of a Trail | Hamat Gader

Tamar HaYardeni

From ancient geological wonder to crocodile spa, Hamat Gader has gone through many incarnations and as many hands. Despite its pagan statues, its hot springs drew even the Talmudic sages  Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Hamat GaderHi

Portrait of a People | Lonely at the Top

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Vladimir Lenin in SmolnyOil on canvas190 x 287 cm1930New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Isaak