The Ofeq Institute of Euclid Ohio, which is devoted to the research and publication of rabbinic literature, has recently published Tosefot HaRosh on Tractate Hagiga, Rabbi Asher Ben Yehiel’s supercommentary […]
In his introduction to the first volume of Mossad HaRav Kook’s Hebrew Encyclopedia of Hasidism, which appeared in 1960 and which featured complete bibliographies of Hasidic writings, arranged according to […]
The Jewish community of Aleppo Syria is one of the oldest in the world. The Jews of that community identify their city as the Biblical Aram Tzova and call it […]
A short time ago the last volume of Moshe Kosovksy’s Otzar Leshon Talmud Yerushalmi (Concordance of the Jerusalem Talmud) was published in Jerusalem. The work, which is based on the […]
Itzhak Holtz is without doubt, one of the outstanding painters of traditional Jewish life. An observant Jew, he has painted Jewish types and scenes from Jewish life with great talent, […]
The last 70 years have seen the publication of numerous books about Jewish houses of worship in different eras and countries, from the antique synagogues, unearthed by archeologists in the […]
Next Thursday, November 5, the Israel Society of Judaica collectors will hold an auction of rare books, manuscripts, documents and works of art at the Jerusalem Plaza-Sheraton Hotel. The Society […]
Rebbetzin Haya Miriam Elberg passed away on the 24th of Tevet (January 18) at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn. The deceased was the widow of the late Rabbi Simha Elberg, who […]
The hunter is here. He has been instrumental in apprehending some thousand German War criminals. He spent years in tracking down Adolf Eichmann. Tuviah Friedman is still hunting. “Thousands of […]
Recently a new issue of the Torah journal Moriah appeared in Jerusalem. It was, in some respects a special edition. With the appearance of this issue, Moriah completed the 20th […]