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Land of Israel
Rachel Cohen-Kagan was one of the most prominent activists for the advancement of women’s rights in the young State of Israel. Her efforts led to her being among the signatories of the Declaration of Independence
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Judaism
How did the pointed hat of European aristocracy become an anti-Jewish Symbol? And was it the forerunner of the modern skullcap?
Diaspora
Some 200,000 pages of historic press will be fully searchable as part of new global initiative
The story of how Gershom Scholem’s Talmud set finally found its way to the National Library of Israel
Photo taken by an Austrian soldier provides a rare glimpse
They were murdered days after Yom Kippur, yet my father survived
When cholera ran rampant, saving lives superseded all else
“Guide me in your truth and fulfill me from its delights”
How did we come to celebrate the New Year in the fall when in the Bible it was celebrated in the spring? And what is the origin of the first month’s peculiar name?
Middle East
A seventeenth-century Muslim intellectual’s staunch defense of smoking sheds light on the practice’s connection to modernity and the concept of recreation
After he freed the serfs, Alexander II was virtually deified by one leading Jewish newspaper
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