Stefan Zweig Exhibition in Jerusalem
On June 20th, the exhibition “Stefan Zweig ” a European from Austria” opened at the Jewish National and University Library of Jerusalem. It was organized by the municipality of Salzburg, […]
The Names of the Weekly Torah Portions
The weekly Torah portion (Sedarot, Parashot or Parshiyot) were not always known by the names we refer to them today. In a study published in the periodical Sinai (1998), Ilana […]
The New Chief Rabbis of Israel
The third of Elul is a significant date in the history of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. On the third of Elul in the year 5670 (1919), Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak […]
A Hebrew Encyclopedia on Judaism
Otzar Erkhei Hayahadut by Rabbi Joseph Grossman is a one volume Hebrew encyclopedia on Judaism, featuring about 1800 entries explaining Jewish values, laws and customs. Talmudic concepts and expressions, as […]
Rabbi Yehiel Yaakov Weinberg’s Talmudic Novellae
Between the years 1961 and 1969, Mossad Harav Kook published four volumes of “Seridei Esh” — responsa, novellae, articles, studies and essays – by Rabbi Yehiel Yaakov Weinberg, who was […]
Mossad Harav Kook’s Anniversary
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of its founding (1937) Mossad HaRav Kook, Israel’s largest publishing house for religious literature, put out two volumes under the title HaSefer (The […]
Yeshiva University’s ‘Torah Umada Journal’
Six years ago the first issue of Yeshiva University’s The Torah Umada Journal was published. In his short preface, Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, president of Yeshiva University, stated that the […]
The Passover Haggadah of the Talmudic Encyclopedia
A Short time ago the Passover Haggadah of the Talmdic Encyclopedia came off the press in Jerusalem. The Haggadah which is entirely in Hebrew, consists of two parts. The first […]
Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics
Between 1988 and 1998 the Dr. Falk Schlesinger Institute for Medico-Halakhaic Research, which is associated with Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical center, published the six volume Entziklpedia Hilkhatit Refuit (Encyclopedia of […]
The Hanging of the Two British Sergeants
One of Them was Jewish In 1947, Palestine Jewry’s underground struggle against the British — which ultimately forced them to turn the Palestine Problem over to the UN– reached its […]