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On March 13, 1881, Czar Alexander II was assassinated in St. Petersburg when a bomb thrown at his carriage exploded. He had been traveling home to his imperial residence at […]

Today, with a Jewish population of 500,000, France is Europe’s largest Jewish community. However, because of the current spate of anti-Semitic violent acts, many French Jews have begun to flee […]

Anne Edith Landau (1873-1945) was described in a 1903 London Jewish Chronicle article as the first Jewish woman ever to be arrested in Palestine, and the only Jewess on whose […]

Two hundred years ago, when Eretz Yisroel was still under the Ottoman Empire (which official language was Turkish) and Hebrew had not yet been revived as a spoken tongue, it […]

More than one hundred fifty years ago, before the invention of the car or airplane, it was rare to find a single woman attempt to travel the long dangerous journey […]

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, […]