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Murder in Hamburg – The Missing Money Changers

Yemima Hovav

A Jewish money changer disappears one fine day in Hamburg, never to be heard of again. Three years later, another one vanishes. Only one woman connected the two events and dared to seek justice The lat

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The Second Temple was begun with a building permit from the Persian empire, but when it was rescinded the exiles found creative ways to continue construction.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.

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

Shlomo Moussaieff’s Antiquities – Solomon’s Treasures

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Stepping into the world of Shlomo Moussaieff's antiquities collection at his home in Herzliya is more like walking into a magical Aladdin's cave than a neatly categorized museum. His fascinating – and controversial – collection revolves aro

Bar Kokhba – The Fighters’ Antique

Nir Rachkovsky

Rappelling to access hidden passages within the depths of the Te'omim cave, archeologists discovered a treasure trove of coins from the Bar Kokhba revolt. The greatest surprise was one peruta, a small bronze coin minted hundreds of years be

The Hope of Israel – Menasseh Ben Israel

Henry Goldblum

Inspired by rumors of the Lost Ten Tribes, he sought to fulfill the age-old vision of redemption by scattering his people to the very ends of the earth. Rembrandt von Rijn, Baruch Spinoza, and Oliver Cromwell, all path-breakers in the cultu

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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 Sunday, 6 Iyar, on a train from Detroit to St. Louis To my dear wife, With gratitude to God for life and peace, On Fr