E.K.Tiefenbrun – Painter of Gedolei Yisrael
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 Different Version of Messilat Yesharim
(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. […]
The Custom of Eating Latkes on Hanukkah
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 Dr. Schoenfeld “Kind”
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 […]
Minhagei Amsterdam
Minhagei Amsterdam, a book about the customs and regulations of Ashkenazi Jews in Amsterdam, was published a short time ago by Machon Yerushalayim. The book carries a lengthy introduction by […]
The Gadol of Minsk
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. […]
Tuvia Friedman
The hunter is here. He has been instrumental in apprehending some thousand German war criminals. he spent years in tracking down Adolf Eichmann. Tuvia Friedman is still hunting. “Thousands of […]
Rabbi Moshe Isserles and His Contemporaries
Rabbi Dr. Asher Siev’s Excellent Studies Rabbi Moshe Isserles, whose Hagahot (glosses) on the Shulkhan Arukh became law for Ashkenazi Jewry, was born in Cracow. His principal teacher was Rabbi […]
The Story of a Good Vort
Several years ago, on the occasion of Purim, I cited in this column a story from Rabbi Paysach J. Krohn’s , The Maggid Speaks, that is often related by Rabbi […]
Two Rabbis Yehezkel, The ‘Gilgul’ of a story
It is told of Rabbi Yehezkel Landau, Prague’s famous rabbi, the 200th anniversary of whose death was observed several months ago,that on the High Holidays he acted as Sheliach Tzibur. […]