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Issues 51-100

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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

Moroccan Makeover – Fez Rabbinic Rulings

Gabriel Abensour

Despite the trauma of expulsion, many of Spain’s Jews reestablished themselves in Morocco, reshaping its Jewish community in their own image. The resulting communal rules and regulations indicate how fast the Spanish Jewish leadership regro

Casablanca – City of Refuge

Yigal Bin-Nun

Though Morocco was ruled by the long arm of pro-Nazi Vichy France, the Jews of Casablanca somehow sheltered thousands of their fugitive European brethren. A forgotten rescue story  Yigal Bin-Nun In the summer of 1940, the German

The Judeo-Arabic Bookshelf – Medieval Judeo-Arabic

Miriam Goldstein

The swift spread of seventh-century Islamic conquest united the vast majority of Jews under one empire and language – Arabic – and revolutionized the Jewish bookshelf forever. What became of the jewels of Judeo-Arabic literature? Miriam Gol

Columns

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