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Next Sunday, July 3, commemorative ceremonies on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the destruction of Hungarian Jewry will be held in Budapest. The commemoration will take place at the […]

More than 20 years ago, I was asked by a charitable institution to write an article about a Haggadah illustration found in the famous Rothschild Miscellany. This was my first […]

R. Paysach J. Krohn relates in his Around the Maggid’s Table the following story, which he heard from R. Yissachar Frand of Baltimore. Two people had a violent argument about […]

New Volume by Lev Sameah Institute The latest publication of the Lev Sameah Institute of Jerusalem – in time for the High Holidays – is a volume featuring a new […]

Shivchei Ha’ari is a well known book containing legends and stories regarding the life and activities of Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, the great mysticist of sixteenth century Safed. Born in Jerusalem, Luria spent […]

The fast of the tenth of Tevet which occurs these days has been declared by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel as a day of reciting the Kaddish in memory of […]

In 1896 the bubonic plague broke out in Bombay. The Indian government asked Waldemar M. Haffkine to investigate the cause of the plague and to attempt to develop a vaccine […]

Passover was only a few weeks away. Jerusalemites were cleaning their homes for the festival. outside the houses, books which the owners wanted to dispose of, were piling up to […]