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Rabbi Yaakov Emden was both a brilliant writer and a prolific author. There were not many rabbis in his generation who wielded a pen as facile as his and wrote […]

On October 5, 1952, a man carrying a briefcase containing a clock and explosives was apprehended near the Foreign Office in the government quarters of Tel Aviv. The man’s name […]

Ozrot HaSofer is a series of yearbooks devoted to the life and writings of Rabbi Moshe Sofer, the Hatam Sofer, published by the London Institute of Otzrot HaSofer, which is […]

Travel Impressions About five hundred Jews live in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) They are dispersed over eight communities. Two hundred live in East Berlin. The East Berlin Jewish […]

Yosef Goldman, a New  York Hebrew bibliographer and collector of books, recently published Hebrew Printing in America, 1735-1926, A History and Annotated Bibliography. The two volume folio size work is […]

(Continued from last week) Against the expectations of Captain Shtaier, it was in the Hungarian areas through which he passed, and not in the German occupied territories that his scheme […]

Gershon Nof presented us recently with a full biography of Rabbi Yaakov David Willowski, known throughout the Torah world as Rabbi Yaakov David ben Zeev- the Ridbaz- the author of […]

Several years ago, Yitzhak Raphael announced plans for the establishment in Jerusalem of Yad Harav Maimon, a world center for Torah and Juaic studies. It was to include the Mosad […]