The Maharal of Prague, Harav Yehudah Lowe, entered this world on the night of the first Seder in 5272/1512 in Posen (Poznan in Polish), today Poland’s fifth-largest city. His early […]
The Four Aristocratic Italian Jewish Families According to an ancient tradition of the Jews of Italy, when Titus conquered Yerushalayim and destroyed the Beis HaMikdash he took with him in […]
Years before composing the popular Friday night piyut, Lechah Dodi, the Kabbalist, Rabbi Shlomo HaLevi Alkabetz, (1505-1584) wrote a letter entitled Iggeres Alkabetz, about a wonderful Shavuos night he experienced […]
The first day of Sukkos is the Yahrzeit of the Nadvorna Rebbe, Rabbi Mordechai Leifer ZT”L who passed away in 1894 (5655). Thousands of Jews from Galicia, Hungary, Poland and […]
More than two thousand years ago, our ancestors celebrated a Sukkos in Jerusalem in a most heartbreaking and painful manner. The four species which they were supposed to hold together […]
The Discovery of the Existence of a Jewish Queen In 1886, on a mission to research Afghani songs in India, a Jewish orientalist by the name of James Darmesteter discovered […]
Harav Chaim Ozer Grodzinski addressed him as “Hanaggid” (The Prince). (1) The Michtav MeEliyahu (Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler) came to his home to privately tutor his only son. (2) Named after […]
The Pesach Haggadah has been translated into more than twenty languages, but one of the most unusual is the one translated into Marathi, the native language of the Jews of […]
The Pan-Arab newswebsite Al-Araby recently reported that Islamic forces operating in the south of Iraq have seized control of the building housing a shul and the Kever of Ezra HaSofer […]
The Givat Shaul neighborhood in Yerushalayim is named after Rabbi Yaakov Shaul Elyashar (1817-1906) who in 1893 became the Sephardic Chief Rabbi (Rishon Lezion) of Eretz Yisroel as well as […]