While the ancient Greeks feared the invention of writing, an early Jewish mystical work viewed it as the foundation of everything that exists.
John F. Kennedy and Israel: A Look Back
Recalling the 35th president’s impact on American-Israeli relations.
The Diplomat: Five Stations in the Life of Abba Eban
He was the greatest diplomat the State of Israel ever produced, and perhaps the greatest in Jewish history. He became the articulate and devoted voice of big ideas, some of which he did not always accept privately, yet he believed wholeheartedly in the clear and undeniable right of the Jews to political independence in their historic homeland. This is the story of a man born at the southern tip of Africa, raised and educated in Britain between the two world wars, who became the official spokesman of the young State of Israel at its most critical moments.
Hauser’s List: The Man Who Saved Hundreds of Jewish Musicians from Europe
The story you are about to read has remained hidden for 85 years. It is a story of music, beauty, and compassion – through which hundreds of lives were saved from the clutches of the Nazis, right under the watchful eye of the British Mandate authorities. This is the story of Emil Hauser, a gifted musician and a national hero.
“I’m Famished”: The Excuse Maimonides Gave His Translator
From the moment he became chief physician at the royal court of Egypt, Maimonides found that he had almost no time left for anything else, not even to meet with the translator of his most famous work.
A Young Yitzhak Rabin Gives His First Interview
He was “level-headed, moderate, coolly analytical, with the lowest bass voice ever heard over the IDF’s combat radio,” and his “number of operations was as great as the number of freckles that once covered his face.” Lt. Col. Yitzhak Rabin gave his first interview to an army newspaper at the age of 27.
Mystery Solved: Uncovering the “Lost Mona Lisa” of Israeli Botanical Art
The posters of the historic “Don’t Pick Wild Flowers!” campaign were part of the childhood landscape of countless Israelis in the 1960s and changed the country’s relationship with nature itself. Yet the original illustrations, painted by Mary Grierson and Heather Wood, disappeared and were long forgotten, until they were found quite by accident.
