Matzot in Havana
Letter to the Editor of Jerusalem Post, April 2, 2007 Sirs, “Cigars, salsa and shmaltz” (February 16) talked about the Canadian Jewish Congress’s supply of kosher-for-Pessah food to the “small […]
Letter to the Editor of Jerusalem Post, April 2, 2007 Sirs, “Cigars, salsa and shmaltz” (February 16) talked about the Canadian Jewish Congress’s supply of kosher-for-Pessah food to the “small […]
Yehoshua Eibeshitz, himself a Holocaust survivor, is known throughout the Jewish world as an author of books, studies, essays and articles about the fate of the Jews in the countries […]
This Erev Pesach marks the end of “Maimonides Year.” which was observed on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the birth of the great sage. Though scholars now agree […]
Several years ago I wrote in Ohr HaMizrach (vol. 24, numbers, 3-4, Nissan-Tammuz 5740) about the “Jerusalems of the Exile”. I listed cities and towns, which Jews called “second” or […]
Melech Beyofyo (“The King in his Beauty”) is the name of an extensive biography of the late Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky which recently came off the press in Jerusalem. The two […]
Author of Warsaw Ghetto Diary Dr. Hillel Seidman, one of the best-known religious Jewish writers and journalists died Monday, Ellul 2, (August 28) in New York. He was reported to […]
The night before I left Budapest to return to New York, I phoned Rabbi Baruch Oberlander, the Lubavitch emissary in Hungary for for some information. When I apologized for phoning […]
VaYelaket Yosef, a rabbinic fortnightly, appeared in Bonyhad, Hungary for 20 years, from 1898-1917. The journal’s publisher and editor was Rabbi Yosef HaKohen Schwartz, a son of Rabbi Naftali HaKohen […]
To the Editor: I read with great interest Rabbi Adam Mintz’ “Words, Meaning and Spirit. The Talmud in Translation,” The Torah U-Madda Journal 5 (1994). Rabbi Mintz deals largely with […]
(Continuation) Soon after his arrival in Berlin, Rabbi Hildesheimer established an institution there, as he did in Eisenstadt, for the education of the young. He was assisted in running the […]