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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...

American JewsArticlesIssue 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

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

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

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...

20th centuryAfricaArtColumnsIssue 73 | June 2025Land of Israel

Book Review | Demonic Desires

Shai Secunda

The lustful demon of the Babylonian Talmud gamely withstands all scholarly attempts at rehabilitation Shai Secunda Demonic Desires“Yetzer Hara” and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity Ishay Rosen-ZviUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, 280 pages...

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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

Seder Under Siege – Seder in Jerusalem 1948

Loving Zion From Gaza – Pioneers in Gaza

Tale of a Trail | The Store

Portrait of a People | Cape Crusader

Book Review | Demonic Desires

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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

Seder Under Siege – Seder in Jerusalem 1948

Loving Zion From Gaza – Pioneers in Gaza

Tale of a Trail | The Store

Portrait of a People | Cape Crusader

Book Review | Demonic Desires

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