Assaf Harofeh, The Jewish Hippocrates
His Sefer Refuos is Earliest Known Extant Hebrew Medical Work According to tradition, the angel Rephael taught Noach all about healing the body and relayed to him different recipes for […]
Haym Salomon, Financier of the American Revolution
America celebrates its independence on July 4. What few in our community know is that the person responsible for saving the newly established nation from collapse was a frum Jew, […]
The Kidnapping of the Abarbanel’s Grandson
The ninth of Av ( 5252) 1492, was a dark day in the history of our people. After having occupied the Iberian peninsula for more than fourteen centuries, the Jewish […]
Passover Tragedy of Prague in 1389
Passover Tragedy of Prague by Pearl Herzog On Passover, more than six hundred years ago, as a result of young Jewish boys playing with some pebbles, almost the entire Prague […]
A Tale of Two Cities, Zdunska Wola and Pietrkow
Tuesday, March 2, 1942 should have been a beautiful Purim day in Zdunska Wola, a town about 28 miles southwest of Lodz, Poland . The day was bright and sunny […]
Pesach Celebrated Two Days Apart in Eretz Yisroel and Bavel
In the year 4682 or 922 C.E. Pesach was celebrated two days apart by the Jewish communities of Eretz Yisroel and Bavel.(1) In Eretz Yisroel, under the leadership of Ben […]
The Sarajevo Haggadah
Emperor Franz Joseph’s nephew, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Princess Sophia were on their way to open the State Museum in its new premises and view the Sarajevo Haggadah […]
Jews and the Civil War
The American Civil War (April 1861-May 1865) was fought by over three million soldiers.. At the time, the U.S. boasted a population of 27 million, eighteen million in the […]
HARAV MOSHE CAPSALI, CHACHAM BASHI OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Sultan Mehmed II was one of the most powerful men in the world during the 15th century. He was only 11 years old when he ascended the throne of the […]
Four Rare Commentaries on Esther
With the approach of Purim, Chaim Eleazar Reich, Boro Park’s publisher of rare books, has put out reproductions of four old commentaries on Esther. R. Zecharya Ibn Saruk was an […]