2020

Baby No. 000001: Meet the State of Israel’s First *Official* Newborn

We were riding high in the afterglow of Independence Day 5785. It wasn’t the torch-lighting ceremony that lit up our spirits, nor the various other national celebrations. No—it was a single article on our “Librarians” website that made our hearts swell: We had managed to uncover the ide

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

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