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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 The Iron Lady Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, 2011   It seems a terrible pity, if one must make a film about

Book Review | Demonic Desires

Shai Secunda

The lustful demon of the Babylonian Talmud gamely withstands all scholarly attempts at rehabilitation Demonic Desires“Yetzer Hara” and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity Ishay Rosen-ZviUniversity

Portrait of a People | Painting from Life

Naomi Samuel

  Self-PortraitMilan, 1690121 X 95 cmOil on canvasMuseum of Fine Arts, Budapest Salomon Adler1630-1709       BaroqueOrnate, mainly 17th-century style of European architecture, art, and music, encouraged by the Catholic church in response

Ruins Revisited | Samaria (Sebastia)

Assaf Avraham

Royal capital of the northern kingdom of Israel until its destruction Where? Northwest of Shekhem (Nablus)When? First Temple, Roman period Photo: Zev Radovan And Ahab son of Omri ruled Israel in Samar

From the Archives | Not Crying for Argentina

Denise Rein

Which Syrian Jews begging to resettle in Argentina intended to stay there, and which just wanted out of Syria? The answers lie in the welfare organizations’ archives The mass Jewish emigration from Rus

Tale of a Trail | Kibbutz Tirat Zvi

Tamar HaYardeni

What saved Kibbutz Tirat Zvi – and especially its children – from General Fawzi al- Qawuqji’s Arab Salvation Army in the months before the declaration of the State of Israel? Where To? War of Independe

Quick Looks at Books

Elka Weber

The Legacy | The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination, 1938–89 | Dirty Jewess | Writing on the Wall The Legacy Melanie PhillipsBomba

Post-Script | Village Mail

Itamar Atzmon

In the early Zionist villages, postal services were under European auspices but had their own unique flavor – until the Turks cracked down The first Jewish agricultural colonies were established in the

Book review | Lincoln and the Jews

Elka Weber

Was Abraham Lincoln’s attitude to Jews just an extension of his genuine affection for all men, regardless of race or creed, or did it reflect a special regard for the people of the book? Marking the 150th anniversary of his death, Lincoln a

From the Archives | Building Zion from Rhodesia

Denise Rein

A booklet produced by a Zionist youth movement in Rhodesia reflects a rich and vibrant community that lasted less than a century. Its young authors had no idea civil war was about to change their world forever

Heads and Tales | The Hole in the Coin

Itamar Atzmon

The Jewish population was agog at the thought of exchanging their Ottoman and Egyptian currency for British Mandate coins stamped with Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic characters. The Arabs, on the other hand, were more inclined to boycott the Pal