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Voices of the Past | Salomon Steinberger

Salomon Steinberger

Salomon Steinberger was the cantor of a major Frankfurt synagogue for thirty years, until he fled to England in 1939. Having studied in the prestigious Pressburg Yeshiva (then located in today’s Bratislava, Slovakia) while Yossele...

ColumnsIssue 54 | September 2020

Critics | Fighting on Different Fronts

Elka Weber

Hollywood contemporaries Irving Berlin and Ben Hecht lived vastly different Jewish lives, with posterity predictably rewarding the politically correct Berlin and relegating Hecht to relative obscurity Elka Weber Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving PicturesAdina Hoffman...

ColumnsIssue 54 | September 2020

From the Archives | Prophecy or Plan?

Yochai Ben-Ghedalia

In the early 1960s, a young teacher named Adin Steinsaltz gave a lecture envisioning a Hasidic revival in Israel. Today, his words seem prophetic – but they were simply a personal plan of action Yochai...

ColumnsIssue 54 | September 2020

Echoes of Sorrow – Mesopotamian Laments

Uri Gabbay

Mesopotamian kingdoms rose and fell, but cultic laments of doom remained a constant ritual. What was their purpose, and what can we learn from their echoes in the biblical book of Lamentations? Uri Gabbay Keening...

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Conspiracy or Contagion? – Israel’s Lost Yemenite Children

Yechiel Michael Barilan

In the early days of the State of Israel, numerous infants born to Yemenite immigrants disappeared after hospitalization. Many families have long suspected that their children were secretly transferred to adoptive families. A new medical...

ArticlesIssue 53 | July 2020

Breaking the Mold – Edward Brampton

Haggai Olshanetsky

A mariner, a knight, the governor of the Isle of Guernsey, and a nobleman with influence at the English and the Portuguese courts – Edward Brampton, the son of a Jewish blacksmith, defied the so-called...

ArticlesIssue 54 | September 2020

Shul or Show? – Golden Age of Cantors

David Olivestone

The huge popularity of cantorial concerts and records during the first half of the 20th century turned the most talented cantors into celebrities. But did they cross the line from prayer to entertainment? David Olivestone...

ArticlesIssue 54 | September 2020

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...

ArticlesIssue 54 | September 2020

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...

ColumnsIssue 56 | March 2021

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 Izrailevich Brodsky1884-1939 Socialist RealismThisgenre generally refers to the formallyrealistic, thematically artificial style of painting emerging in Russiafollowing the Communist Revolution...

ColumnsIssue 56 | March 2021

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...

ArticlesIssue 56 | March 2021

Issues

Voices of the Past | Salomon Steinberger

Critics | Fighting on Different Fronts

From the Archives | Prophecy or Plan?

Echoes of Sorrow – Mesopotamian Laments

Conspiracy or Contagion? – Israel’s Lost Yemenite Children

Breaking the Mold – Edward Brampton

Shul or Show? – Golden Age of Cantors

The Sheriff of Tel Aviv – Meir Dizengoff

Tale of a Trail | Hamat Gader

Portrait of a People | Lonely at the Top

Festivals of Freedom – Jailed Chabad Leaders

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Issues

Voices of the Past | Salomon Steinberger

Critics | Fighting on Different Fronts

From the Archives | Prophecy or Plan?

Echoes of Sorrow – Mesopotamian Laments

Conspiracy or Contagion? – Israel’s Lost Yemenite Children

Breaking the Mold – Edward Brampton

Shul or Show? – Golden Age of Cantors

The Sheriff of Tel Aviv – Meir Dizengoff

Tale of a Trail | Hamat Gader

Portrait of a People | Lonely at the Top

Festivals of Freedom – Jailed Chabad Leaders

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