After the Fast
Rabbi Joel Leib Herzog – the father of Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac HaLevi Herzog, the late Chief Rabbi of Israel relates in one of his books (Imrei Yoel, part 3, London, […]
A Pesach Story Told About Five Rabbis
Mordechai Lipson relates in his Midor Dor (vol. 3, p. 117, no. 2086) the following about Rabbi Yoshe Ber Soloveichik of Brisk: A few days before Passover a man called […]
Zamenhof Street in Tarragona, Spain
Consulting a map of Tarragona in order to find my way about the city, I noticed to my great surprise a street called Zamenhof. I could not believe my […]
Saul Lieberman On the Occasion of his 75th Birthday
In the spring of 1970, a team of archeologists uncovered at En-Gedi the mosaic pavement of a synagogue from the Byzantine period. The reading of the inscription in the […]
The Beautiful but Unused Chuppah Room of the Leningrad Synagogue
The report in the media of the celebration of religious marriages for a group of Russian-Jewish couples, who came to the U.S. in recent years brought back to me memories […]
The Baal Shem of Michelstadt
The Baal Shem of Michelstadt Impressions of a visit to his native town Rabbi Yitzhak Arye (Sekel Loeb) Wormser, known as the Baal Shem of Michelstadt, was one of […]
Tudela, Spain
A large stone tablet affixed to a house in the former Jewish quarter of Tudela in Spain pays homage to the Jewish traveler Benjamin, “son of Yona of Navarre, who […]
Journey to Jordan
Amman, the capital of Jordan, is a modern and thriving city. Fifty years ago, when the British cut off the territory east of the Jordan from historic Palestine, and installed […]
Casablanca
A short time ago the Religious Council of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality awarded the Rabbi Y. M. Toledano Prize for Torah Literature to Rabbi Shalom Messas for his recently published […]
The Jews of Athens
Sabbath morning. I didn’t know what head dress to wear – My regular hat, the “Kova Tembel” I had bought from Israel or a Yarmulke. I decided on the latter. […]