Shabbat Teshuva — Shabbat Beinataim
The Sabbath Between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur is called Shabbath Teshuva (Sabbath of Repentance) or Shabbat Shuva (named for the Haftara Shuvu Yisrael — Hosea 14: 2-10– which is […]
Yad HaRav Nissim
In recent years, we have seen the emergence in Jerusalem of an important new Torah teaching and research center: Yad HaRav Nissim, established in memory of the late Rishon LeTzion […]
Valmadonna Trust Exhibition at the Pierpoint Library
It is a measure of the great interest in old Hebrew manuscripts and books that not long after “A Sign and a Witness” an exhibition which brought together 186 Hebrew […]
Isaac Lewin’s Latest book ‘In Defense of Human Rights’
Dr. Isaac Lewin has been active throughout his life in two distinct areas of human endeavor. He is a scholar, a distinguished historian of Polish Jewry and has played a […]
The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz
On March 19, 1944, the German army marched into Hungary. Before long anti-Jewish laws were introduced, Jews were arrested, Jewish property was confiscated, ghettos were established and the mass deportation […]
A Note on a Yom Kippur Piyut
During the last one hundred and fifty years great rabbis and scholars wrote important and interesting notes on the prayers and Piytim, but because these were published in periodicals or […]
Dr. Samuel Rosen
Early in 1952, after ten years of intensive study, Dr. Samuel Rosen discovered a new method of restoring hearing in people who suffered from otosclerosis, a common form of deafness. […]
A Brilliant Interpretation by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
In his commentary on the Torah, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch offers a brilliant identification of the Adi (ornament) of the Israelites about which we read in Parashat Ki Tissa: “When […]
‘Hasidism on Display’ Exhibition at Central Library of Lubavitch
Last Tuesday, Isru Hag of the festival of Shavuot, an exhibition was opened at the central library of Lubavitch, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y. celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth […]
More on Yetziv Pitgam
Several years ago I wrote in this column about the Piyut Yetziv Pigam which is recited on the second day of Shavuot before the reading of the Haftara. I remarked […]