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Dani Hacker and Tanya Regev

What do Israel’s third president, businessman and publisher Salman Schocken, and Breslov Hasidic leader Rabbi Yisroel Dov Ber Odesser have in common? A pamphlet distributed in Jerusalem connects them all Dani Hacker and Tanya Regev...

ColumnsFrom the ArchiveshasidismHigh Holy DaysIssue 76 | March 2026JerusalemPost-1948StatesmenZionism

Game of Thrones – Hasmonean Civil War

Ilan Abecassis

The Hasmonean story began with the heroic Hanukka tale but ended in a civil war sparked by two rival royal brothers. Two cultural elites – Pharisee and Sadducee – vied for dominance in the death...

AntiquityArticlesHanukkahIssue 75 | December 2025Jerusalem

Greatness in Store – Gittel Dinowitz

Tamar HaYardeni

Very few know anything about her, and even the street sign bearing her name says precious little. Yet Gittel Dinowitz was a pillar of pre-state Jerusalem’s Old City, her leadership growing out of the store...

20th centuryArticlesIsrael's warsIssue 68 | March 2024JerusalemPre-state of IsraelWritersZionism

Tale of a Trail | Gihon Spring

Tamar HaYardeni

Jerusalem’s water supply has been vulnerable to attack since antiquity, prompting ingenious solutions that have long intrigued archaeologists. What made the city’s water source so unusual – and how was it protected from enemies? Tamar...

AntiquityColumnsIssue 74 | October 2025JerusalemSukkotTale of a Trail

Tale of a Trail | Nicanor’s Cave

Tamar HaYardeni

Nestled in the botanical gardens on the Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus is a small burial cave dating from the Second Temple period. A century ago, this ancient site briefly came to life Tamar HaYardeni...

20th centuryColumnsIssue 65 | June 2023Jerusalem

Voices of the Past | Hadassah Kaplan

Hadassah Kaplan

Hadassah Kaplan wrote the following letter to her father in Hebrew during her stay in Jerusalem in 1933, in response to his question of whether she recommended his relocating there Hadassah Kaplan Dear Father, When...

ColumnsIssue 73 | June 2025JerusalemPre-state of IsraelWomen

Reconstructing Hadassah – Hadassah Kaplan

Sharon Ann Musher

How were the feminist and Zionist aspects of Reconstructionist Judaism influenced by founder Mordecai Kaplan’s experience of raising four daughters? And when the second, Hadassah, spent a year in British Mandate Palestine, how did her...

ArticlesIssue 73 | June 2025JerusalemPre-state of IsraelWomen

Tale of a trail | Monastery of the Cross

Tamar HaYardeni

In a picturesque valley dividing Israel’s parliament and government offices from Jerusalem’s ritzier areas, an ancient monastery nestles within a small nature reserve. Traces of hidden treasure, desperate struggle, and daring heroes are said to...

ColumnsIssue 72 | March 2025JerusalemMedieval Period

Seder Under Siege – Seder in Jerusalem 1948

Moshe Ehrnvald

As the sun set on the British Mandate and rose over the new State of Israel, civil war raged between Arabs and Jews. Jerusalem’s hundred thousand Jewish residents prepared to celebrate Pesach under siege, unsure...

ArticlesIssue 72 | March 2025JerusalemPesachPost-1948

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 2025JerusalemJerusalem DayPre-state of IsraelWomen

Tale of a Trail | Allenby Square Jerusalem

Tamar HaYardeni

The sick man on the Bosphorus had lost his grip on Jerusalem, but to whom exactly did he surrender? Parades, ceremonies, and monuments marking the conquest of Israel’s future capital. Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Allenby...

ColumnsIssue 69 | June 2024JerusalemPre-state of Israel

Jerusalem

From the Archives | Hasidim at Heart

Game of Thrones – Hasmonean Civil War

Greatness in Store – Gittel Dinowitz

Tale of a Trail | Gihon Spring

Tale of a Trail | Nicanor’s Cave

Voices of the Past | Hadassah Kaplan

Reconstructing Hadassah – Hadassah Kaplan

Tale of a trail | Monastery of the Cross

Seder Under Siege – Seder in Jerusalem 1948

Tale of a Trail | The Store

Tale of a Trail | Allenby Square Jerusalem

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From the Archives | Hasidim at Heart

Game of Thrones – Hasmonean Civil War

Greatness in Store – Gittel Dinowitz

Tale of a Trail | Gihon Spring

Tale of a Trail | Nicanor’s Cave

Voices of the Past | Hadassah Kaplan

Reconstructing Hadassah – Hadassah Kaplan

Tale of a trail | Monastery of the Cross

Seder Under Siege – Seder in Jerusalem 1948

Tale of a Trail | The Store

Tale of a Trail | Allenby Square Jerusalem

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