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The Nussah of the Gaon of Vilna In the short foreword to Siddur Ezor Eliyahu we read: “The legacy of Rabbenu Eliyahu did not include a printed Siddur. Most of […]

He shrugged his shoulders and made a helpless movement with his hands. “What is there to write about me? What could I tell you? I am only a “poshute” (plain) […]

This is the fifth volume of the new edition of Maimondes’ Mishne Torah with fully voweled text English translation and commentary, pbulsihed by “Moznaim.” The first volume containing Hilkot beth […]

Scholars, rabbis and writers rubbed shoulders at a reception tendered this week in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Menahem, who have arrived from Israel for a short visit to […]

Four hundred youngsters participate each Sabbath at services a the Knesset Yisrael Synagogue  in Galata, the Jewish quarter in the center of Istanbul. Tow hundred boys and girls come to […]

Four years ago during a visit to Greece, I met at the synagogue of Athens, Rabbi Yaakov Arrar, the rabbi of the local Jewish community, and Rabbi Yitzchak Mezzan his […]

Barukh Strassburger’s Hebrew book Reshimot Shenot Dor carries the English explanatory subtitle “Timely Reflections and Timeless Rabbinic Ideas” (Memories, Remarks, notes, lectures, speeches). The volume is verily a collection of […]

Last week Dr. Martin Buchband, one of the world’s leading ear, nose and throat specialists, died in New York at the age of eighty. He was not only a well […]

Prof. Moshe Bar Asher of the Hebrew University has published in recent years several studies about the particular religious customs of the Jews of southwestern France. Prof. Bar-Asher discusses the […]