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 […]
Bikkurim is the name of a new yearbook devoted to Torah. It is published in Jerusalem by the Diskin Orphan Home of Israel and features contributions by Roshei Yeshiva and […]
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 […]
At the Gravesite of Menasseh Ben Israel Continued Sunday afternoon we visited the Portuguese Jewish cemetery in Ouderkirk, a village about five miles south of Amsterdam. The cemetery- the oldest […]
New York is a city with a large populace. Each of us meets and knows many persons, and it is precisely because of this that we really do not know […]
Hundreds of supercommentaries have been composed on Rashi’s commentary on the Torah. Those who wrote commentaries include leading rabbinic personalities, such as Rabbi Israel Isserlein (author of Trumat Hadeshen), R. […]
In the Jewish cemetery of Fez, Morrocco — the city we associate with the Rif and the Rambam — stands a monument, the gravesite of a beautiful young woman, who […]
Sarah Bayla Hirschenson,(1816-1905) a magnetic Rebbetzin from Pinsk was the first Ashkenazi woman of her time to learn to speak Arabic; she helped her husband establish Yeshivas in Tzfas and […]
Reputed to be the wealthiest woman in Germany in her time, Chaile Raphael Kaulla served as a treasurer at the Royal Wurttemberg court, while raising a family and supporting a […]