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  The Potuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam — founded early in the seventeenth century by Marranos from Spain and Portugal was for a long period the largest and most wealthy […]

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 […]

Regina Horowitz Margareten The Horowitz Margareten Company, known by its familiar blue and yellow boxes of Matzos has been a household name in Jewish homes around the world for more […]

Rabbi Pinhas Zelig HaKohen Schwartz’ Sefer Yizrah Ohr Next month, on Erev Pessah, Jews all over the world will recite the Birkat HaHamah, the Solar Blessing, which is said once […]

Rabbi Avraham Ravitz passed away early Monday, January 26  in Jerusalem’s Hadassah-Ein Kerem University Hospital at the age of seventy five.  A fine rabbinic scholar, brilliant orator and long-time Torah […]