Holocaust Commemoration in Budapest
Next Sunday, July 3, commemorative ceremonies on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the destruction of Hungarian Jewry will be held in Budapest. The commemoration will take place at the […]
The Late Rabbi Symcha Elberg’s Einei HaEda
Einei HaEda (The Eyes of the Community) is the name of the late Rabbi Symcha Elberg’s latest book, which appeared posthumously a short time ago. The Hebrew volume, carrying the […]
At the Haffkine Institute in Bombay
In 1896 the bubonic plague broke out in Bombay. The Indian government asked Waldemar M. Haffkine to investigate the cause of the plague and to attempt to develop a vaccine […]
Waldemar Haffkine (Mordecai Zeev) On the 70th Anniversary of His Death
The 3rd of Heshvan 5761 will mark the 70th anniversary of the death of Waldemar (Mordecai Zeev) Haffkine, the famous bacteriologist who discovered vaccines against the cholera and the bubonic […]
I was a Dr. Schoenfeld “Kind”
I was a “Rabbi Schoenfeld Kind.” After the Kristallnacht pogrom of November, 1938, the British government declared its readiness to admit several thousand Jewish children into Great Britain. The Chief […]
Minhagei Amsterdam
Minhagei Amsterdam, a book about the customs and regulations of Ashkenazi Jews in Amsterdam, was published a short time ago by Machon Yerushalayim. The book carries a lengthy introduction by […]
Vitoria in Spain
Bilboa in the Basque country is a large and beautiful city, but I spent only one day there. In fact, I had come the long way from Madrid, not to […]
A Minyan in Cordoba
Cordoba. There was a period in the Middle Ages when Cordoba on the Guadalquivir was the largest city in Europe. It was the capital of Moslem Spain and had a […]
Sefer HaManhig
Several months ago there appeared in Israel a new edition of Abraham ben Nathan HaYarhi’s “Sefer HaManhig” an important medieval work on Halacha. Abraham ben Nathan, who was a contemporary […]
Rabbi Symcha Elberg’s ‘Imrei Symcha’ (Vol. 2)
“In Jewish Warsaw the approach of Pesach was felt already in the cold and frosty nights of Tevet, several months before the advent of the festival. The climate was still […]