A Jewish Poetess Killed by Muhammad
Unfortunately, we have no contemporary Jewish sources regarding the Jewish community in the Hagiz (known today as Saudia Arabia) during the period of the establishment of Islam and Mohammad’s relationship […]
Unfortunately, we have no contemporary Jewish sources regarding the Jewish community in the Hagiz (known today as Saudia Arabia) during the period of the establishment of Islam and Mohammad’s relationship […]
For more than two thousand years Jews who have been living in Greek lands have been speaking Yevanic, a Greek language containing Hebraic and Aramaic words written in Hebrew characters. […]
The Judith-“Milchig” Chanukah Connection by. Pearl Herzog When Chanukah arrives, many Jewish tables will tastily testify to the custom of eating dairy products over the course of those special eight […]
HAGGADAH IN THE GARAGE IN MANCHESTER, AN HISTORIC PIECE OF JUDAICA TURNS UP IN AN UNLIKELY PLACE Arare illuminated Haggadah believed to have been commissioned to commemorate the birth of […]
Rabbi Yair Chaim Bacharach, a German Rov born in Leipnik Moravia in 1639 was considered one of the greatest Poskim of the seventeenth century and is best known for his […]
There’s a well known Jewish joke, that the last time a husband will have a chance to put his foot down will be at his Chupah, when he steps on […]
For several centuries after the passing of the tzaddik Harav Ephraim Encaoua (Elnkaoua, or Elnekave), thousands of Jews from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and France gathered every Lag BaOmer at his […]
Four Jewish aristocratic families of Jerusalem were exiled to Rome when Titus conquered that city in 70 C.E and took the vessels of the Bais HaMikdash with him. Although there […]
The following story is believed to have taken place in Prague in the year 1577. It was repeated orally for several centuries until the prominent Jewish writer Salomon Kohen (1825-1904) […]
Nine years after the death of the Maharal, and a year after the last volume of Rabbi Heller’s Tosfos Yom Tov commentary on the Mishna was initially published in Prague, […]