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A Dig Full of Holes – Maresha

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Has the Maresha excavation unearthed a pile of junk or the key to a Judea much more diverse than we’d supposed? The best thing is, you can find out for yourself Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Maresha...

Alexander JannaeusarchaeologyArticlesHasmonean periodIssue 32 | June 2016Land of Israelritual purity

From the Archives | The Angry Convert

Hadassah Assouline

A letter sent by Lenin’s great-grandfather to the czar was intended to make as much trouble as possible for the Jews of Russia Hadassah Assouline The letter below, sent to Czar Nicholas I of Russia...

19th centuryColumnsFrom the ArchivesIssue 16 | April-May 2013PeopleUkraine

My Son, the Pirate – Samuel Pallache

Yoav Pulver

Few rabbis have lived as colorful a life as Samuel Pallache. Merchant, diplomat, and emissary to the king of Morocco, Pallache even resorted to piracy to exact his people׳s revenge on the Spanish fleet Yoav...

ArticlesEarly modern periodIssue 32 | June 2016Moroccan JewsMoroccoNetherlandsStatesmen

A Beautiful Mind – Hedy Lamarr

Yemima Hovav

Actress Hedy Lamarr may have owed her fame to ״standing still and looking stupid,״ but she was anything but. This assimilated Jewess combined aspects of her colorful past to patent something that could have torpedoed...

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9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr

Yemima Hovav

Hedy Lamarr at age 7 1. Hedy Lamarr׳s parents came from a bourgeois Jewish background. Her father was born in Lvov, Poland, and her mother in Budapest. Assimilation was their fast track to economic security;...

actorsArticlesIssue 32 | June 2016New YorkViennaWomenWWII

Fight for the Spirit – Holocaust Leadership

Isaac Hershkowitz

Though physical help was largely beyond their power, Jewish religious leaders in the Holocaust sought to ease their followers’ spiritual pain, saving Judaism as well as Jews Isaac Hershkowitz The Holocaust challenged the humanity of...

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A Dig Full of Holes – Maresha

From the Archives | The Angry Convert

My Son, the Pirate – Samuel Pallache

A Beautiful Mind – Hedy Lamarr

9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr

Fight for the Spirit – Holocaust Leadership

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A Dig Full of Holes – Maresha

From the Archives | The Angry Convert

My Son, the Pirate – Samuel Pallache

A Beautiful Mind – Hedy Lamarr

9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr

Fight for the Spirit – Holocaust Leadership

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