Dramatic Episode From Six Day War
Shortly after the Six Day War, Col. Mordechai Gur, who commanded the paratroop brigade with liberated the Old City of Jerusalem was appointed military advisor of the Israeli delegation in […]
Shortly after the Six Day War, Col. Mordechai Gur, who commanded the paratroop brigade with liberated the Old City of Jerusalem was appointed military advisor of the Israeli delegation in […]
He forcefully voices religious Jewry’s views on current affairs and problems of the State, and in a brilliant manner, he sets forth their attitudes and demands. He writes with much […]
It was about a week after Pesach. My wife and I were sitting in the villa of Shmuel Yosef Agnon in the Talpiot section of Jerusalem. Time passed quickly in […]
Aleppo is Syria (which the Jews identified as the Biblical Aram Tzova and called, in short Are”Tz) was for many centuries, a center of Torah studies. The city’s Jewish community […]
The association Zakhor! (“Remember”) was formed many years ago by Yisrael Yehoshua Eibeschitz, a Holocaust survivor from Poland for the purpose of keeping alive among our people, the memory of […]
Several months ago a festive gathering was held at the Palm Tree nursing home in Boro Park. The occasion was the celebration of the hundredth birthday of one of the […]
“The Great Eagle at the JNUL” is the name of the exhibition of Maimonides’ works presently held at the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem on the occasion of […]
The Sassoon were called the “Rothschilds of the East.” In the first half of the nineteenth century, David Sassoon, a scion of a family of Jewish community leaders of Baghdad, […]
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. On this occasion, the Jewish National and Hebrew University Library has placed on display some of its finest […]
A Jerusalem publisher has brought out new editions of two early works on tractate Yoma for the benefit of Daf Yomi students who this week embarked on the study of […]