Atzeret, The Mishna’s Name for Shavuot
In the Mishna and in the Talmuud the festival of Shavuot is called Atzeret. What is the meaning of this name and why was the festival called so? A variety […]
A New Commentary on Yerushalmi Shekalim
For about 200 years- from the third quarter of the 15th century until the dissolution of the “Council of the Four Lands” in 1765– the same tractate of Talmud was […]
Pen More Perilous than the Sword
Letter to the Editor Jerusalem Post 2/15/2007 Sir, I was pleased to read that Bar-Ilan University is seeking to query Prof. Ariel Toaff about his book Pasque di Sangue (Bloody […]
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 […]
Rabbi Israel Joshua Trunk, The Rabbi of Kutno
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 […]
End of ‘Maimonides Year’
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 […]
Jerusalems of the Exile
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 […]
New Biography of Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky ZTL
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 […]
Dr. Hillel Seidman Passes Away
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 […]
Lubavitch in Hungary
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 […]