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Shtreimel Variations: The History of a Hat

No Fur Thank You! The Israeli legislature has been debating the legality of the local fur trade since 2009, when the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Law (Amendment 8) was submitted to the Knesset. Demand...

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Scent of Freedom

Tamar HaYardeni

Pipe Dreams The average tourist would definitely wrinkle his nose in disgust and pity at the row of old women beaming from the photo of the Russian Compound’s pilgrim hostel in turn-of-the-century Jerusalem. The subjects...

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Independence Day|Tale of a Trail

Issue 32 | June 2016

In the Service of the Czar

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The Czar of Progress Peter I, also known as Peter the Great (1672–1725), is a controversial figure in Russian history. His admirers are as many and varied as his detractors, and his life and works...

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Tapestry showing Moses and the Ten Commandments

Marc Chagall – the Surrealist Jew

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Herring for Breakfast Standing on the rooftop, suspended between heaven and earth, was Marc Chagall’s childhood perspective on his native Vitebsk: As a boy, I would watch you from our doorstep, childlike. To a child’s...

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Shtreimel Variations: The History of a Hat

Scent of Freedom

In the Service of the Czar

Marc Chagall – the Surrealist Jew

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