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Clothed in Kindness – Clothing Sabbath

Levi Cooper and Itai Cooper

Teaser: The Jews who dominated Thessaloniki’s garment industry celebrated Hanukka by displaying their best wares – and by ensuring the community’s schoolboys were well clothed for winter. This worthy example spread far and wide Levi...

ArticlesEarly modern periodGreeceHanukkahIssue 75 | December 2025Rabbis

Journey of an Idea – From Rabbi Bibas to Herzl

Yitzhak Krausz

Back to the article The First Zionist Visionary – Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai The concept of the Jewish people’s revival in its ancient homeland shuttled between a disintegrating Ottoman Empire and Balkan countries aspiring to independence....

19th centuryGreeceIssue 71 | December 2024RabbisZionism

The First Zionist Visionary – Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai

Yitzhak Krausz

At first glance, 19th-century rabbi Yehuda Alkalai’s writings seem like traditional Jewish interpretations of biblical prophecies, but closer scrutiny reveals a strikingly modern redemptive vision – which had yet to be dubbed Zionism Yitzhak Krausz...

19th centuryArticlesEuropeIssue 71 | December 2024Rabbis

Book Review | Maimonides in His World

Shai Secunda

Shai Secunda Maimonides in His WorldPortrait of a Mediterranean Thinker Sarah StroumsaPrinceton University Press 2009 Faced with a sophisticated yet uncomplicated gadget, the New York Times’ review of the iPad™ offers two assessments side...

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Clothed in Kindness – Clothing Sabbath

Journey of an Idea – From Rabbi Bibas to Herzl

The First Zionist Visionary – Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai

Book Review | Maimonides in His World

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Clothed in Kindness – Clothing Sabbath

Journey of an Idea – From Rabbi Bibas to Herzl

The First Zionist Visionary – Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai

Book Review | Maimonides in His World

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