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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

Quick Looks at Book

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

The Sages | For the Freedom of Zion | A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The SagesCharacter, Context and Creativity - Yeshivot of Babylonia and Israelby Binyamin Lau Maggid Books, 2022278 pages...

AntiquityColumnsIssue 65 | June 2023Land of Israel

Lay of the Land – Ashtori Ha-parhi

Amichay Schwartz

Using skills honed over generations, 14th-century scholar Ashtori Ha-parhi wandered the length and breadth of the biblical land of Israel, quadrant in hand, resolving issues that had long troubled the Jewish world Amichay Schwartz Ashtori...

ArticlesIssue 65 | June 2023Land of IsraelMedieval PeriodProvence

Tale of a Trail | Sa’ad

Tamar HaYardeni

The founders of Kibbutz Sa’ad (literally, “Aid”) didn’t choose that name, but the establishment of this collective between Gaza and Beersheba in 1947 certainly aided in the Negev’s inclusion in the Jewish state Tamar HaYardeni...

ColumnsHistoric Walks in IsraelIssue 67 | December 2023Land of IsraelPre-state of Israel

Joining Forces – Ultra-Orthadox Soliders

Moshe Ehrnvald

Though Israel’s ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students have long been exempt from military service, they weren’t always. In the struggle to secure what became the Jewish state, this camp’s rabbis and public figures were clear that their...

ArticlesIsrael's warsIssue 67 | December 2023Land of IsraelPost-1948

Voices of the Past | Yosef Trumpeldor

Yosef Trumpeldor

Diary entries and letters from Trumpeldor’s final days, 1920 January 4 Many have asked: If the French with their rifles and machine guns can’t stand up to the Arabs, how can we […]? None...

ColumnsIssue 67 | December 2023Land of IsraelPioneersZionism

Singlehanded – Yosef Trumpeldor

Amit Assis

Though most famous as the one-armed defender of Tel Hai, Yosef Trumpeldor was also a Russian patriot, dentist, and pre-kibbutz pioneer of agricultural collectives in the land of Israel. He also cofounded the Jewish Legion,...

ArticlesIssue 67 | December 2023Land of IsraelPioneersPre-state of IsraelZionism

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

Book Review | Promised Lands

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Promised LandsHadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine Sharon Ann Musher New York University, 2025, 261 pages Sharon Ann Musher’s detailed analysis of her grandmother’s...

Book ReviewsColumnsIssue 73 | June 2025Land of IsraelPre-state of Israel

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

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Tale of a Trail | Nicanor’s Cave

Quick Looks at Book

Lay of the Land – Ashtori Ha-parhi

Tale of a Trail | Sa’ad

Joining Forces – Ultra-Orthadox Soliders

Voices of the Past | Yosef Trumpeldor

Singlehanded – Yosef Trumpeldor

Voices of the Past | Hadassah Kaplan

Book Review | Promised Lands

Reconstructing Hadassah – Hadassah Kaplan

Tale of a trail | Monastery of the Cross

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Tale of a Trail | Nicanor’s Cave

Quick Looks at Book

Lay of the Land – Ashtori Ha-parhi

Tale of a Trail | Sa’ad

Joining Forces – Ultra-Orthadox Soliders

Voices of the Past | Yosef Trumpeldor

Singlehanded – Yosef Trumpeldor

Voices of the Past | Hadassah Kaplan

Book Review | Promised Lands

Reconstructing Hadassah – Hadassah Kaplan

Tale of a trail | Monastery of the Cross

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