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Every year with the approach of Passover new Haggadah editions make their appearance. In recent years the Diskin Orphan Home of Israel — the oldest charitable institution of the Holy […]

On Rosh Hodesh Sivan, Rabbi Yehuda Rubinstein, the veteran Hebrew bibliographer, died in New York. He was in his eightieth year. Death came to him suddenly. Only a week before […]

הגיע לידי גליון הדואר מיום ט”ז בשבט תשל”ד ובעמוד 236 מצאתי הערתו של ט. פרשל לעדותו של ריב”ל בענין ספרים הנדפסים על ידי נוכרים, וראיתי להעיר שדברי ריב”ל כבר ציינתי […]

Last November 9, Frankfurt’s new Jewish museum was opened. The event was planned to coincide with the Kristallnacht commemorations, which were held throughout the Federal Republic of Germany. Of the […]

Among the Kinnot we recite on the night of Tisha B’Av is one which describes the mourning of the hosts of heaven over the destruction of the Temple. Not only […]

With the approach of Passover, my thoughts inevitably turn back to an event which took place on Hol HaMoed Pesah five years ago. Nowhere else, even in Israel itself is […]

In the late 1940s, Paltiel (Phillip) Birnbaum was engaged in preparing an English translation of the daily prayer book. He would  frequently visit the late Rabbi Hayim Heller to consult […]

The Mediterranean is calm and beautiful. The S.S. Izmir plows it s way through the blue waters. It is Friday, late in the afternoon. “All Jewish passengers aboard are invited […]

Some time ago, Mesorah Publications put out a book about the late Rosh Yeshiva of Ponevezh, Rabbi Eleazar Menahem Man Schach. The book is titled Rav Schach on Chumash. The […]