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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...

ColumnsIssue 62 | September 2022

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...

AntiquityArticlesEgyptIssue 76 | March 2026Land of IsraelPesach

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 Shapotshnick to...

ArticlesIssue 61 | May 2022

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...

ColumnsIssue 62 | September 2022

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,...

ArticlesIssue 62 | September 2022

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...

ColumnsIssue 62 | September 2022

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...

ArticlesIssue 59 | November 2021

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...

ArticlesIssue 59 | November 2021

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...

ArticlesIndependence DayIsrael Independence DayIssue 76 | March 2026Land of IsraelZionism

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 voice transcends...

19th centuryArticlesIssue 76 | March 2026United KingdomWomenWriters

Divinely Plagued – Wolff Haggada

Yaakov Ben-Ze’ev

Identifying perhaps more with the plague-ridden Egyptians than with liberated Israel, the scribe of the prized Wolff Haggada referred readers to his epic testimony concerning the horrors of the Black Plague and how he reconciled...

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Voices of the Past | Rabbi Moses Son of Nahman

Egypt’s Exodus – Egyptian Rule in Canaan

Murder in the Holy City – Jacob Israel de Haan

Tale of a Trail | Cave of the Patriarchs

Tourists on the Battlefield – 1929 Arab Riots

From the Archives | Unfinished Business

In Search of a Lost Poetess – Friha ben Adiba

Moroccans in Zion – Avraham Muyal

Cooking Up Independence – Barbecues on Israel Independence Day

God’s Words Whispering – Grace Aguilar

Divinely Plagued – Wolff Haggada

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Voices of the Past | Rabbi Moses Son of Nahman

Egypt’s Exodus – Egyptian Rule in Canaan

Murder in the Holy City – Jacob Israel de Haan

Tale of a Trail | Cave of the Patriarchs

Tourists on the Battlefield – 1929 Arab Riots

From the Archives | Unfinished Business

In Search of a Lost Poetess – Friha ben Adiba

Moroccans in Zion – Avraham Muyal

Cooking Up Independence – Barbecues on Israel Independence Day

God’s Words Whispering – Grace Aguilar

Divinely Plagued – Wolff Haggada

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