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Uphill Battle – Temple Mount: Modern Jewish Attitudes

Dotan Goren

Today most Jews visiting the Temple Mount are religious and of a certain stripe, but when the site opened to non-Muslims in the mid-19th century, it was generally secular Jewish tourists who seized the opportunity to connect with their nati

Egypt’s Exodus – Egyptian Rule in Canaan

Assaf Avraham

Though there’s no evidence outside the Bible for the Jewish people’s sojourn in Egypt, historical and archaeological finds from the end of the late Bronze Age in the land of Israel indicate that Egyptian domination of Canaan ended around th

Murder in the Holy City – Jacob Israel de Haan

Pini Dunner

Though Jacob de Haan’s assassination at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center shocked the Jewish world, the victim himself elicited little direct sympathy. What prompted London-based rabbi and maverick journalist Joseph Sh

Tourists on the Battlefield – 1929 Arab Riots

Glenda M. Woolf

They weren’t partial to either Arabs or Jews. But when a group of British divinity students on a summer pilgrimage to the Holy Land found themselves caught up in Arab attacks on the Jewish population, they helped the Mandate authorities res

In Search of a Lost Poetess – Friha ben Adiba

Joseph Chetrit

Liturgical poetry, or piyut, plays a major role in the Sephardic heritage but has long been considered an exclusively male enterprise – until the recent discovery of a female poet from Morocco, whose life story was legend and whose poems sp

Moroccans in Zion – Avraham Muyal

Mordecai Naor

Surprisingly enough, the guiding hand behind eastern European Zionists’ early colonization efforts was a Moroccan Jew raised in Jaffa. He succeeded because, as the colonists discovered on arrival in Palestine, Moroccan Jews had gotten there

Cooking Up Independence – Barbecues on Israel Independence Day

Hizky Shoham

In the State of Israel’s the formative years, its education minister called for a haggada to mark Independence Day, and the Histadrut’s Folk Dance Department envisioned mass horas. Much to the chagrin of the country’s elite, however, popula

God’s Words Whispering – Grace Aguilar

Maya Spielman

In her short life, Grace Aguilar produced historical novels, theological works, and devotional texts whose psychological depths still reverberate for women today Maya Spielman There are moments in history when a woman’s clear vo

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Voices of the Past | Rabbi Moses Son of Nahman

Rabbi Moses Son of Nahman

Two letters sent by Nahmanides to his sons provide a glimpse of his personal life Nahmanides’ scant surviving personal correspondence includes the following two letters to his sons, Nahman and Shlomo (Solomon).  Writing to Nahman in 1267, h

Tale of a Trail | Cave of the Patriarchs

Tamar HaYardeni

Generations of rulers and believers have added layers of construction to the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, but mystery still shrouds the original cave’s dark depths  Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Cave of the PatriarchsSacred his

From the Archives | Unfinished Business

Gabriel Alexander

A portrait Gustav Klimt failed to complete before his death has left a trail across the art world, but how many know the story of the woman portrayed? Her secrets have long lain buried in the archives of the Vienna Jewish community, where t