Moznaim Publishers of Jerusalem which, in the last few years, published various parts of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah in English translation recently published an additional volume – the 16th in the […]
Rabbenu Hananel ben R. Hushiel was active in Kairouan in North Africa in the 11th century. His writings were the main channel through which the traditions and the teachings of […]
The 3rd of Heshvan 5761 will mark the 70th anniversary of the death of Waldemar (Mordecai Zeev) Haffkine, the famous bacteriologist who discovered vaccines against the cholera and the bubonic […]
Meorot HaDaf HaYomi is a weekly newsletter devoted to the Daf Yomi. The newsletter, which is published in Bnei Brak, features Halachic problems and decisions relating to he Dappim studied by […]
Elazar Kalman Tiefenbrun has done it again! The portrait he painted of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on the occasion of his 89th birthday, has made a profound impression! The well known […]
(A New Ofeq Institute Publication) Rabbi Moshe Hayyim Luzatto authored numerous works during his short life. Many of those which appeared in print had a great impact on our people. […]
Rabbi Moshe Isserles mentions in the Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim (670/2) the custom of eating cheese on Hanukkah and states the reason. This custom is already mentioned — as indicated […]
I was a “Rabbi Schoenfeld Kind.” After the Kristallnacht pogrom of November, 1938, the British government declared its readiness to admit several thousand Jewish children into Great Britain. The Chief […]
(Conclusion) The customs of the Ashkenazim of Amsterdam are chiefly those of the old communities of the Rhine lands, Mayence, Worms and others. In certain instances the Jews of Amsterdam […]
HaGadol MiMinsk (“The Gadol of Minsk”), published recently by Feldheim is a biography of the Gaon R. Yeruchom Yehuda Leib Perelmann, who served as rabbi in Seltso, Pruzhany and Minsk. […]