Jean Pierre

Rabbi Shimon Agassi: The Boy Who Dared to Study Kabbalah

Nothing like it had ever happened before at Midrash Bet Zilkha, a house of Jewish learning in the city of Baghdad. Though rumors had reached the head of the institution that Shimon and Reuven—only seventeen years old—were secretly studying Kabbalah, this time he had caught them in the act. Naturall

The Eichmann Effect

On May 23, 1960, Haya Hirsch burst into the Tel Aviv apartment of her upstairs neighbors and shouted, “Can you believe that we caught him? Can you believe it?” A key Nazi official and an architect of the Final Solution, Adolf Eichmann, had just been captured in Argentina and brought to Israel to

How Do You Set Kafka to Music?