Rabbi Refael Aharon Ben Shimon, a native of Rabat, Morocco, grew up in Yerushalayim and served as the Chief Rabbi of Cairo for three decades (1891-1921). An outstanding Talmid Chochom and Posek who led his flock with strict adherence […]
In 1614, one thousand three hundred eighty Jews – the entire Jewish community of Frankfurt, including its rav, Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz, author of the Shlah (Shnei Luchos HaBris) – were […]
As you open your machzor this Rosh Hashanah, something you will probably not expect to find is a Jewish pope. But if you read carefully, that’s exactly what you’ll see. […]
Exiled after the destruction of the first Beis Hamikdash, a Jewish community seeks guidance “The Passover Letter” is the name given by scholars to a papyrus scroll discovered over a […]
Gibraltar occupies a small peninsula jutting out from the Spanish coast. Its town is situated at the foot and on the lowest levels of the western face of the Rock, […]
Many talmidei chachamim around the world today enhance their learning of Gemara with the Yad David commentary composed by Rabbi Yosef David Sinzheim (recently published by Machon Yerushalayim), first Chief […]
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 […]