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Issue 1 | April 2010

Articles

Evasive Action – Building the Second Temple

Yaakov Medan

The Second Temple was begun with a building permit from the Persian empire, but when it was rescinded the exiles found creative ways to continue construction. The "illegal" building they erected inspired later generations in their heroic st

Back to Czernowitz – Uncovering Jewish Culture

Daphna Yizrael

Once a Jewish hub with an international ambiance, now a Ukrainian provincial capital: a group of Israeli youths searching for the vestiges of Czernowitz’s Jewish glory found spectacular murals in what is today an Evangelical church. Daphna

Tel Aviv’s Unsung Heroes

Nir Mann

"Tel Aviv is at the flicks", mocks the song from 1948, describing the functioning of the first Hebrew city during the War of Independence. But the reality was quite different: Tel Aviv, the heart of the Jewish Yishuv, dispatched a dispropor

Columns

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 as

Film review | Inglourious Basterds

Hayuta Deutsch

Musings on history, alternative history, and theology based on the surprising final scene of Tarantino’s film. Hayuta Deutsch Inglourious Basterds Quentin TarantinoUSA, 2009   An SS officer arrives at a dairy farm in a French

Preservation – Salomon’s Mill

Moshe Chaim Shapira

Very few people are aware that Gershon Salomon, the veteran activist of the Temple Mount Faithful, is the scion of an old Jerusalemite family of millers. The preservation folder of a simple-looking house in the heart of Jerusalem’s Nahlaot

From the Archives | A Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Letter

Hadassah Assouline

From the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe to his wife, written in America in the late 1920s Hadassah Assouline Sunday, 6 Iyar, on a train from Detroit to St. Louis To my dear wife, With gratitude to God for life and peace, On Friday, I