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. […]
Vitoria in Spain
Bilboa in the Basque country is a large and beautiful city, but I spent only one day there. In fact, I had come the long way from Madrid, not to […]
A Minyan in Cordoba
Cordoba. There was a period in the Middle Ages when Cordoba on the Guadalquivir was the largest city in Europe. It was the capital of Moslem Spain and had a […]
Sefer HaManhig
Several months ago there appeared in Israel a new edition of Abraham ben Nathan HaYarhi’s “Sefer HaManhig” an important medieval work on Halacha. Abraham ben Nathan, who was a contemporary […]
Rabbi Symcha Elberg’s ‘Imrei Symcha’ (Vol. 2)
“In Jewish Warsaw the approach of Pesach was felt already in the cold and frosty nights of Tevet, several months before the advent of the festival. The climate was still […]
Rabbi E.E. Dessler’s Novellae on the Talmud
“The publication of this volume makes it evident to all that its author was not only a brilliant exponent of the Mussar movement, but was equally outstanding in the exposition […]
Zvi Raphaely, Kabbalist and Artist
The walls were studded with canvasses: Israeli landscapes, Jerusalem street scenes, a general view of the Holy City, Hasidim dancing, musicians, flowers. Extraordinary pictures by an unusual artist. Zvi Raphaely […]