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“I paint with one brush and two colors. The brush is my heart. The colors are the blood and fire of Treblinka, Maidanek and Auschwitz.” Shaul Banay has been painting […]

We did not talk “politics”. For the past years the participation of Poale Agudat Israel in the Mapai-led Israel cabinet and PAI’s relations with Agudat Israel, its parent body, have […]

Rebbetzin Chava Bacharach was an extraordinary woman. A granddaughter of the Maharal of Prague, a daughter of Rabbi Yitzchak Kohen, the famous son-in-law of the Maharal, and the wife of […]

 There is a difference between Begin the political speaker and Begin the lecturer. Begin’s political oratory is packed with emotion whereas the tone of his lectures is serene.  There pathos […]

By Saul Lieberman and Tovia Preschel Isaac Rivkind came to the field of Jewish scholarship after years of intensive activity in the Zionist movement in Europe and the United States. […]

The main events reported in “Chronicles” are based on the Bible, ancient historical narratives and on the results of archaeological excavations. Naturally, many of the minor items as well as […]

By Bernard Postal and Samuel H. Abramson The Landmarks of a People, a Jewish tourist’s guide to Europe, is a book which fills a long-felt need. It will be deeply […]

In “Yiddish and English- A Century of Yiddish in America,” Sol Steinmetz set himself the task of describing the relationship between Yiddish and English and their influences on each other. […]

  I have in front of me a volume of Hebrew poetry entitled “Gesharim” (Bridges). It was printed in Debrecen, Hungary, in 1942, and was one of the small number […]

More than a year ago I wrote in The Jewish Press about Rabbi Jacob Gellis’ project to assemble from printed works and manuscripts all the Biblical comments and interpretations of […]