Articles by Pearl (Preschel) Herzog

Known as the wisest and holiest woman in Kurdistan, (see side bar on Kurdish Jewry) seventeenth century Osnat (Barazani) Mizrachi was not only renown for her Torah wisdom but both […]

In the library of Manhattan’s Fashion Institute of Technology is a 1998 master’s thesis entitled “The Wedding Costume of Frances Hart Sheftall.” Its author, Lisa Frisina, devotes page after page […]

A story is related about a man with an ailing foot who had visited several doctors in order to ameliorate his pain. Not having success with them, he decided to […]

The Best Accommodations The Story of World-Class Hostess, Jennie Grossinger With her hardworking spirit and genuine interest in every person, Jennie Grossinger turned her family’s wildly successful resort into a […]

More than 150 years ago there lived in Yerushalayim a most colorful personality: Rabbi Yaakov Ibn Sapir. A brilliant talmid chacham and linguist, he was able to converse in Russian, […]

by Pearl Herzog The first Purim ever to be celebrated with the eating of hamantashen made with povidl (prune and plum jam) is believed to have taken place in 1731 […]

There is a custom practiced by descendants of the Baal Shem Tov and his students to observe an annual seudas hoda’ah on the last day of Pesach, in celebration of […]

By Pearl Herzog The city of Pinsk, under the sovereignty of Belarus since 1991 and devoid of Yiddishkeit for many decades, is at present experiencing a Jewish renaissance. Pinsk and […]

Born into immense wealth, Flora Sassoon could have easily strayed from the path of Torah. Instead, she became a legend in her time — raising strong frum Jews in the […]

On 22 Tammuz/June 11 2004 a hakamas matzeivah took place on Har HaZeisim at the newly discovered gravesite of Chana Rochel Webermacher (1806–1888). It was the 116th yahrtzeit of the “Ludmirer Moid” or […]