This book describes the natural history, behavior, ecology and conservation of the Nubian ibex. This endangered species is one of the great successes of nature conservation in Israel.

This issue contains the following essays: Assaf and Ishay Rosen-Zvi | Tannaitic Halakhic and Aggadic Methodology Yakir Paz | ‘Binding Crowns to the Letters’ – A Divine Scribal Practice in Its Historical Context Avishai Bar-Asher | Illusion versus Reality in the Study of Early Kabbalah: The Commentary on Sefer Yeṣirah Attributed to Isaac the Blind and Its History in Kabbalah and Scholarship Ariel Zinder | The Siluq in Hebrew Liturgical Poetry from Al-Andalus: New Discoveries Gideon Freudenthal | Maimon the Kabbalist Boris Kleiner | Gradation of the Disjunctive Accents in the Bible Recitation of Jews of Yemen and in Other Jewish Traditions: On the Prosodic Hierarchy in the Recitation Books Received English Abstracts

The book is concerned with the main trends in Jewish Liturgy during Late Antiquity and its connections and inter relations with Aramaic Targum, Midrash, mysticism, popular beliefs, structure and rhyme patterns as performed amid Late Antique Synagogues in Palestine, as well as the later spread of these fertile products to Southern Italy and then to the rest of Europe. The book discusses the different layers of poets and performers as presented in ancient manuscripts which were preserved in the Cairo Geniza collections and later in European Mahzorim, and the fascinating struggle of survival of the different liturgical cycles.

This is a book on one of Buenos Aires's neighborhoods, Villa Crespo, considered by many a Jewish district, and its football team Club Atletico Atlanta. Through the lens of this neighborhood institution, Rein offers an absorbing social history of Jews in Latin America. Since the end of World War II, there has been a conspicuous Jewish presence among the fans, administrators and presidents of the Atlanta football club. For the first immigrant generation, belonging to this club was a way of becoming Argentine. For the next generation, it was a way of maintaining ethnic Jewish identity. Now it is nothing less than a family tradition for third generation Jewish-Argentines to support Atlanta. The book offers a rare window into the rich culture of everyday life in the city of Buenos Aires, created by Jewish immigrants and their descendants.

The question of theodicy has preoccupied philosophers and theologians throughout generations. Roughly: If God is moral, how can there be evil in the world? Or: Is the existence of evil not evidence against the existence of a righteous God? This question became the greatest philosophical challenge for the believer, and the main device in the hands of atheists. The question of theodicy also raises a second-order discussion, about the nature of the challenge: Is there a logical contradiction between a moral God and the existence of evil? If not, what sort of tension is this? Can the attributes of God be thought of in a coherent manner? Does the very existence of evil give rise to the challenge, or only the existence of unnecessary evil? The present research addresses Kant’s take on theodicy. It focuses mainly on two Kantian assertions that seem to disaccord with Kant’s theory of freedom: 1. That evil is entrenched in mankind, and 2. That if all-inclusive moral-order is impossible, the moral-law is erroneous. The conclusion, based on close examination of Kant’s argumentation, is that Kant did not exclude theodicy from rational discourse, but rather redefined the challenge enclosed in the question of theodicy.

In Second Gear: Beginner Level to Intermediate Level is aimed at students learning with the book First and Foremost for beginners. The book provides concentrated material designed particularly for the end of level Bet, including morphology and syntax. This textbook contains nine chapters, each with a different theme. They all have a similar structure: opening, syntax subject, morphological subject and verb group. This is trial edition. Please note that it has not been completed and edited in full.

The articles in this volume originated, in large part, as papers presented at a conference convened by the Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction in December 2014 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Melton Coalition is a consortium of the three Melton Centers established over the years by the visionary philanthropist Samuel Mendel Melton: at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Ohio State University. The conference was devoted to the various forms of interaction that obtain between the oral and the textual modes of discourse in Jewish history and contemporary Jewish life. Some of the essays dwell on oral and textual media in historical context – while others place more emphasis on the contemporary educational implications of the phenomena under discussion. All the essays in this volume articulate patterns of oral and written discourse that can greatly enrich our knowledge of both the history of Jewish culture and the theory and practice of Jewish education.

To what extent did the Zionist movement seek a Jewish state? Was it after mass Aliyah of Europe's Jews between the two world wars? To what degree did the movement act to save Jews during the Holocaust? This book undermines various postulations known among the Israeli public and Zionist historiography. The Zionist movement was founded by Herzl as a movement addressing Jews affairs, or in other words - a solution for the Jewish problem in Europe by mass migration of the Jews to a Jewish nation-state. With Herzl's death, and following the Uganda crisis, the perception of the Zionist leadership underwent changes with regards to the objectives of the movement. It was no longer perceived as being responsible for the "Jewish affair", but rather as a project of the slow building of Erez Israel as a spiritual center, meant to contain a limited Jewish elite, while the rest of the Jewish People remained in the Diaspora. Hence, the fact that before World War II a Jewish state did not exist, and that the population of the Yeshuv included no more than 450 thousand Jews, are not entirely a result of British and Arab objection, but also, and perhaps mostly, the outcome of the policy of the Zionist movement. The latter was not decisive with regards to the foundation of a state, and opposed mass Jewish migration, fearing it would blemish the "idealistic" society they wished to create. Seeing as the Zionist movement did not regard itself as responsible for the "Jewish affair", it also did not see itself as responsible for the fate of European Jewry, and did not act as expected during the Holocaust to save Jews.

In this book, the complicated relationship between religion and nation, as well as the relationship between nationalism and the process of secularization are discussed from a multidisciplinary perspective. In the last decades these issues attracted considerable research and public interest throughout the world. The book consists of articles from renowned scholars dealing with the relations between religion, secularism and nationalism in general, in prominent historical patterns as expressed in German, English, American, Turkish, Polish and Russian nationalism, and in the Jewish-Israeli context . The book's articles shed light on the phenomena of nationalism and secularization, in light of contemporary research on these two fascinating fields .

It has been said: " No two people have ever read the same book." This is true for literature where the reader has to imagine a world presented by words. It doesn't seem appropriate for cinema which presents a world ready-made to be seen and heard. But films, almost since their early beginnings, and especially in the recent decades, have been capable not to present, not to show, but to allude to off-screen events and images. One could say about most of the movies discussed in this book: " No two people have ever watched the same film ".