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Seeking The Hidden Face Of God – Hillel Zeitlin

Shraga Bar-On

Though he saw the Jewish people as trapped in a fatal, dead-end existence, writer Hillel Zeitlin labored to bring redemption. Struggling with doubt, he kept hoping and praying, wrestling with contradictions to create a role...

ArticleshasidismHolocaust|WWIIIssue 72 | March 2025PolandWriters

Loving Zion From Gaza – Pioneers in Gaza

Ido Yisraeli

After touring the land of Israel, an early Zionist delegation proposed resettling European Jews not just in agricultural colonies but in cities. A pioneer group from Jaffa agreed to pave the way in Gaza, writing...

19th centuryArticlesIssue 72 | March 2025Land of IsraelZionism

Judaism’s Service Entrance – Freed Slaves

Moshe Yagur

Though viewed today as an outmoded evil, slavery was part of medieval Jewish life in Arab lands. Somewhat surprisingly, slaves owned by Jews were considered semi-Jewish; having entered the Jewish people through this “back door,”...

AntiquityArticlesCairo GenizaEgyptIssue 72 | March 2025

Sacred and Profane on the New York Yiddish Stage

Yakov Friedland

Yiddish theater enabled Jewish immigrants to the U.S. to tell the Jewish story in a new way. Its formative heroes were actors, directors, and producers rolled into one, whose very different attitudes toward Jewish identity...

ArticlesIssue 73 | June 2025

Tale of a Trail | The Store

Tamar HaYardeni

Behind an innocent-looking Tel Aviv storefront, Israel’s infant arms industry churned out bullets, mortars, and guns right under the British Mandate’s nose Tamar HaYardeni Where To? The Store Secret Hagana armory10 Ha-sharon Street, Tel Aviv...

ColumnsIssue 73 | June 2025

Portrait of a People | Cape Crusader

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel InteriorOil on canvas295 x 320 cmCape Town, c. 1930–35Iziko South AfricanNational Gallery, Cape Town Wolf Kibel1903-1938 ExpressionismTwentieth-century movement seeking to convey emotion rather than reality, often through distortion or exaggeration I...

ColumnsIssue 73 | June 2025

Catalogue of Care – Julius Rosenwald

Yuval Jobani

Self-made millionaire Julius Rosenwald devoted his fortune as well as himself to others. His philanthropic principles speak volumes about integration for both Jewish and black Americans Yuval Jobani Has there ever been a philanthropist who...

ArticlesIssue 73 | June 2025

Book Review | Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto

Elka Weber

Seventy years after the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Moshe Arens’ book recalls the forgotten fighters who did not live to tell their story Elka Weber Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw...

ColumnsIssue 16 | April-May 2013

Book Review | Moynihan’s Moment

ספיר

Musings on history, alternative history, and theology based on the surprising final scene of Tarantino’s film. ספיר Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight against Zionism as RacismGil Troy Oxford University Press,2013, 358 pages On November 10, 1975,...

ColumnsIssue 16 | April-May 2013

Book Review | Koren Talmud Bavli, Berakhot

Michael Goldblum

A new annotated translation of the Talmud is not just more of the same, but signifies a departure in Talmud study, inviting engaged discussion instead of enshrining tradition Michael Goldblum Koren Talmud Bavli, BerakhotCommentary by...

Book ReviewsColumnsIssue 11 | July 2012

Film review | The Iron Lady

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Margaret Thatcher’s career is worthy of a more deserving tribute than a film about Alzheimer’s Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Iron Lady Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, 2011 It seems a terrible pity, if one must...

20th centuryColumnsIssue 10 | April 2012Literature and CultureUnited KingdomWomen

Issues

Seeking The Hidden Face Of God – Hillel Zeitlin

Loving Zion From Gaza – Pioneers in Gaza

Judaism’s Service Entrance – Freed Slaves

Sacred and Profane on the New York Yiddish Stage

Tale of a Trail | The Store

Portrait of a People | Cape Crusader

Catalogue of Care – Julius Rosenwald

Book Review | Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto

Book Review | Moynihan’s Moment

Book Review | Koren Talmud Bavli, Berakhot

Film review | The Iron Lady

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Seeking The Hidden Face Of God – Hillel Zeitlin

Loving Zion From Gaza – Pioneers in Gaza

Judaism’s Service Entrance – Freed Slaves

Sacred and Profane on the New York Yiddish Stage

Tale of a Trail | The Store

Portrait of a People | Cape Crusader

Catalogue of Care – Julius Rosenwald

Book Review | Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto

Book Review | Moynihan’s Moment

Book Review | Koren Talmud Bavli, Berakhot

Film review | The Iron Lady

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