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Rabbi Chanan Porat: The Shofar Is Silent

by Hillel Fendel | March 9, 2012 in People

Rabbi Chanan Porat, circa 1988. Photo: Sa’ar Ya’acov/Israel Government Press Office “A ‘Sabbath Jew’ he was—not because he showed his Jewishness once a week, but because his entire life was one of… Read more

The Siege and Fall of Gush Etzion

by Toby Klein Greenwald | February 15, 2012 in History

View of the reconstructed Kfar Etzion Courtesy of the Kfar Etzion Archives During the months bridging the vote on the partition plan (November 29, 1947) and the birth of the State of Israel (May 15,… Read more

Making History

by Toby Klein Greenwald | February 15, 2012 in History

Some personal memories of landmark historical moments. Map of Gush Etzion, 1947: Some twenty kilometers from Jerusalem, nestled between Bethlehem and Hebron and among numerous Arab villages, were the… Read more

Yoni Goldstein: Soaring to the Beat of a Different Drum

by Bayla Sheva Brenner | February 12, 2012 in People

In honor of Veteran’s Day, we are paying tribute to all those who have served our country to make America a better and safer place for all. Every kid wonders what it would be like to fly.… Read more

Dr. Ben Kempner, Sir! Frum Physician Goes Navy

by Bayla Sheva Brenner | February 12, 2012 in People

Navy Lieutenant Ben Kempner, thirty-two, wrestles with being a yarmulke-wearing, kosher-eating anomaly at work and a uniformed attraction sporting a crew cut in his Jewish community. Fearlessly… Read more

My Son, the Investigator

by Bayla Sheva Brenner | February 12, 2012 in People

While most MBA graduates head directly for the corporate world, one idealist took a decidedly different turn. He’s happily blending his business acumen with his yen for public service—at the FBI. A… Read more

Speaking with Rabbi Israel Meir Lau

by Michael Freund | December 7, 2011 in Israel

Journalist Michael Freund converses with Israel’s former chief rabbi about the Israeli scene, anti-Semitism, and the recent translation into English of his remarkable memoir Out of the Depths: The… Read more

Letter from South Africa

by Steve Lipman | December 7, 2011 in Jewish World

View of Johannesburg, with a Jewish population of 55,000. Photos: Ilan Ossendryver JOHANNESBURG — Shortly before I began a visit to South Africa late last year, my first time in the once-reviled… Read more

On and Off the Beaten Track in… the Af-Al-Pi-Chen Museum

by Peter Abelow | December 7, 2011 in Israel

The Af-Al-Pi Chen was one of the ships that participated in the struggle to bring Jews to Eretz Yisrael clandestinely during and after WWII. Today, it serves as a museum that dramatically tells the… Read more

Chaim Grade’s Centenary

by JA Mag | December 7, 2011 in Jewish World

In his writings, Chaim Grade conveys a picture of Eastern European Jewry that he knew so well. While he was, by his own admission, far from observant, his artistic achievements are widely recognized.… Read more

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