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. […]
The Offenbach Haggadah, 1722
The Haggadah, which is reproduced here, was printed in Offenbach, Germany, in 1722. It is largely the product of one family: Grandfather, father and son. The commentaries and discussions of […]
Reb Chaim Liberman’s “Ohel Rachel”
Many know Reb Chaim Liberman, more have heard about him, but only very few know of his real greatness in the world of Jewish scholarship. Though he is eighty-eight—until one […]