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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. […]

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 […]

Several months after the Six Day War, the sons of the settlers of Kfar Etzion, occupied and destroyed by the Arabs in 1948, returned to the desolated site to rebuild […]

I visited Budapest several times since the end of World War II. I stayed in various places (at one time under the Communist regime, foreign visitors were confined to certain […]

The ballroom of the Hilton Hotel was packed to capacity. Three thousand delegates and guests attended the banquet of the United Jewish Appeal’s annual conference at which Moshe Dayan, Israel’s […]

In his introduction to Yen HaTov on the Aramaic translations of the Torah, Rabbi Alter Tovia Wein of Rehovot speaks of the importance of studying the Targumim. He relates that […]