In the library of Manhattan’s Fashion Institute of Technology is a 1998 master’s thesis entitled “The Wedding Costume of Frances Hart Sheftall.” Its author, Lisa Frisina, devotes page after page […]
A story is related about a man with an ailing foot who had visited several doctors in order to ameliorate his pain. Not having success with them, he decided to […]
The Best Accommodations The Story of World-Class Hostess, Jennie Grossinger With her hardworking spirit and genuine interest in every person, Jennie Grossinger turned her family’s wildly successful resort into a […]
More than 150 years ago there lived in Yerushalayim a most colorful personality: Rabbi Yaakov Ibn Sapir. A brilliant talmid chacham and linguist, he was able to converse in Russian, […]
by Pearl Herzog The first Purim ever to be celebrated with the eating of hamantashen made with povidl (prune and plum jam) is believed to have taken place in 1731 […]
There is a custom practiced by descendants of the Baal Shem Tov and his students to observe an annual seudas hoda’ah on the last day of Pesach, in celebration of […]
By Pearl Herzog The city of Pinsk, under the sovereignty of Belarus since 1991 and devoid of Yiddishkeit for many decades, is at present experiencing a Jewish renaissance. Pinsk and […]
Born into immense wealth, Flora Sassoon could have easily strayed from the path of Torah. Instead, she became a legend in her time — raising strong frum Jews in the […]
On 22 Tammuz/June 11 2004 a hakamas matzeivah took place on Har HaZeisim at the newly discovered gravesite of Chana Rochel Webermacher (1806–1888). It was the 116th yahrtzeit of the “Ludmirer Moid” or […]
J. Pierpoint Morgan, Jr. inherited thousands of objets d’art from his famous financier father, which he gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in 1917. One item of interest […]