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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 […]

Louis Felicien de Saulcy was searching for ancient coins. It was 1863 and the prominent French numismatist was excavating an area in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, not far from where […]

For more than four centuries, up until the the years between the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and the Suez Canal Crisis in 1956, when a mass […]

Rectifying the Sin of the Tree of Knowledge. Back in the 18th century, a fascinating story circulated among Jews that the Queen of Prussia, Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of King […]

And the Disappearance of the Ethrog from Corfu For several centuries Corfu was one of the chief suppliers of Ethrogim to Jews all over the world. The use of Corfu […]