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    Issues 51-100

    Issues 51-100

    בהגדות אמריקאיות מסורתיות התרגום לאנגלית של המלים "לשנה הבאה בירושלים" היה מסורבל. בהגדה מאוירת מ־1857 נראה בית המקדש בנוי בירושלים

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  • | Illustration: Ovadia Ben Ishu

    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

  • In Casablanca and throughout Morocco, Jews readily assisted European refugees. Postcard of the city’s Boulevard de la Gare, 1920 | Photo: Culture Club/Hulton Archive, Getty Images

    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 transition to Judeo-Arabic cracked open a rabbinic window to the outside world. Muslim Theologian with Quran, Osman Hamdi Bey, 1907 | Courtesy of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

    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

  • A sixty-year, richly creative career as a commentator, thinker, leader, and halakhic arbiter. Artist’s impression of Rabbi Moses ben Nahman, a.k.a. Nahmanides | Illustration: Ovadia Benishu

    Agreeing to Disagree – Nahmanides

    Oded Yisraeli

    When Maimonides’ philosophical writings finally reached western Europe in a language its Jews could read, his ideas met with intense and growing opposition. Though the great Jewish leader was deceased by then, Rabbi Moses son of Nahman took

  • Columns

  • Voices of the Past | Shmuel Yosef Agnon

    Shmuel Yosef Agnon

    Upon learning that every last Jew there had been murdered by the Nazis, Agnon set about recreating Buczacz in all its vibrancy, from its heyday as a seat of Jewish learning until the day its last Jew fell dead upon the hill   27 Is it possi

  • Quick Looks at Books

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish | An Unchosen People | Jews and Their Roman Rivals | The 36 Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Categorically Jewish, Distinctly PolishPoli

  • Tale of a Trail | Herodium National Park

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    Why did Herod bury his architectural masterpiece and final resting place, and who discovered it? Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Where To? Herodium National Park   Herzl has Herzliya, Montefiore has the

  • Portrait of a People | Shadowlight

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel Bezalel SchoolA fusion of Oriental artand Meir Gur Arieh (Gorodetsky)1891-1951 HoraPaper

  • Critics | Iron Woman of Yom Kippur

    Amit Assis and Sara Jo Ben Zvi

    Fifty years after the war whose losses tarnished her legacy forever, Golda Meir is the subject of a new film and biography. Surprisingly, both the Israeli and American perspectives – zooming in on the war and out on a career spanning five d

  • A Day at the Museum | Tower of David Museum

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    The accessibility project that has transformed Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum over the past three years is no mere facelift. The fortress itself now takes center stage, serving as a gateway to the city of faiths  Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

  • Tale of a Trail | Lake Yeruham

    Tamar HaYardeni

    Lack of water was one of the young State of Israel’s greatest challenges. Though desalinization has made that issue history, the story of Lake Yeruham reflects the state’s changing attitude toward water over the years Tamar HaYardeni

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