In the spring of 1864, the following advertisement appeared in the Hebrew periodical HaMaggid: In the Congregations will I bless Hashem Who has granted us life and sustenance and permitted […]
Leaflets distributed throughout the country called for participation in a Chanukah mass rally in Hebron in support of the Jewish settlers. Thousands responded. They came from all over Israel: young […]
Slowly he descended from the El Al super jet. He was all smiles. In his hand he held the new eleventh volume of the Talmudic Encylopedia: his “passport” to American […]
An Episode in Metz, France Two Hundred Years Ago During the period of the Tosafists, Metz boasted a significant Jewish community. Rabbi Eliezer ben Shemuel, a disciple of Rabbenu Tam […]
Soon after Israeli troops entered the Old City of Jerusalem, an army jeep was sent to the Kerem Abraham Quarter of the modern city to take Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook […]
Recently I received a biography of Rabbi Yaakov of Lissa, the “Netivoth” written by Abraham Yitzhak Bromberg. Bromberg, a rabbi from Poland now residing in Jerusalem, is the author of […]
Rabbi Aaron HaLevi of Barcelona (HaR’ah), one of the important medical rabbinical authorities, commentator on the Talmud and on Rabbi Isaac Alfasi’s Halakhot as well as author of other works, […]
Betzalel Landau, one of the most prolific religious journalists is no more. After suffering for years from a terminal illness which he bore with fortitude, he succumbed on the 16th […]
Two years ago was the centenary of the birth of Chaim Dov Friedberg, well known Hebrew author and bibliographer. He was born and raised in Cracow, lived in Frankfurt and […]
Rabbi Tuvia Wein, the scion of a famous rabbinical family and one of the few students of the Chafetz Chaim still among us, has arrived for a visit in the […]