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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

Book Review | The Many Lives of Anne Frank

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Many Lives of Anne Frank Ruth FranklinJewish Lives series, Yale University Press, 2025424 pages Is Anne Frank a symbol of Jewish oppression or a universal model of courage in the...

20th centuryBook ReviewsColumnsIssue 75 | December 2025NetherlandsWomenWritersWWII

Royal Convert – Queen Helene of Adiabene

Tal Ilan

Even antiquity had its celebrity culture, with intellectuals chronicling the lives of the famous. The conversion of an entire royal family to Judaism thus fascinated both the sages and Josephus, who recorded the wondrous deeds...

AntiquityArticlesIssue 65 | June 2023Women

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 | 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

Film review | The Iron Lady

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Margaret Thatcher’s career is worthy of a more deserving tribute than a film about Alzheimer’s Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Iron Lady Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, 2011 It seems a terrible pity, if one must...

20th centuryColumnsIssue 10 | April 2012Literature and CultureUnited KingdomWomen

Portrait of a People | Mother of Art Therapy

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Interrrogation IPrague, 1934-38120 X 180 cmOil on woodJewish Museum, Prague Friedl Dicher-Brandeis1898-1944 Deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942 with a fifty-kilo weight limit, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis filled her...

20th centuryArtColumnsCzech RepublicIssue 64 | March 2023Women

Woman of Worth and Wisdom – Flora Sassoon

Hezi Cohen

Even today, most boardrooms remain dominated by men, but 130 years ago a Jewish woman shattered the glass ceiling to preside over one of India’s largest mercantile empires. A philanthropist and scholar to boot, Flora...

19th centuryArticlesIndiaIssue 71 | December 2024Women

Return of the Spies – Nili

Yemima Hovav

In the dark days of World War I, members of the Nili spy ring foresaw the new order emerging in the Middle East and opted to work with the British, despite all the risks. To...

ArticlesIssue 23 | October 2014PioneersPre-state of IsraelWomenWW1Zionism

Zionist with Cello

ימימה חובב

Music Meets the Fields One foggy morning in 1878, as legend has it, four horseback riders cantered out of Jerusalem. Near the Arab village of Um-Labbes, where they’d hoped to found the first Zionist agricultural...

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God’s Words Whispering – Grace Aguilar

Book Review | The Many Lives of Anne Frank

Royal Convert – Queen Helene of Adiabene

Voices of the Past | Hadassah Kaplan

Reconstructing Hadassah – Hadassah Kaplan

Tale of a Trail | The Store

Film review | The Iron Lady

Portrait of a People | Mother of Art Therapy

Woman of Worth and Wisdom – Flora Sassoon

Return of the Spies – Nili

Zionist with Cello

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God’s Words Whispering – Grace Aguilar

Book Review | The Many Lives of Anne Frank

Royal Convert – Queen Helene of Adiabene

Voices of the Past | Hadassah Kaplan

Reconstructing Hadassah – Hadassah Kaplan

Tale of a Trail | The Store

Film review | The Iron Lady

Portrait of a People | Mother of Art Therapy

Woman of Worth and Wisdom – Flora Sassoon

Return of the Spies – Nili

Zionist with Cello

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