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, […]
The Maharal of Prague, Harav Yehudah Lowe, entered this world on the night of the first Seder in 5272/1512 in Posen (Poznan in Polish), today Poland’s fifth-largest city. His early […]
The Four Aristocratic Italian Jewish Families According to an ancient tradition of the Jews of Italy, when Titus conquered Yerushalayim and destroyed the Beis HaMikdash he took with him in […]
Years before composing the popular Friday night piyut, Lechah Dodi, the Kabbalist, Rabbi Shlomo HaLevi Alkabetz, (1505-1584) wrote a letter entitled Iggeres Alkabetz, about a wonderful Shavuos night he experienced […]
The first day of Sukkos is the Yahrzeit of the Nadvorna Rebbe, Rabbi Mordechai Leifer ZT”L who passed away in 1894 (5655). Thousands of Jews from Galicia, Hungary, Poland and […]
More than two thousand years ago, our ancestors celebrated a Sukkos in Jerusalem in a most heartbreaking and painful manner. The four species which they were supposed to hold together […]
The Discovery of the Existence of a Jewish Queen In 1886, on a mission to research Afghani songs in India, a Jewish orientalist by the name of James Darmesteter discovered […]