Dr. Dov Yarden
“Fibonacci Quarterly”, an American magazine devoted to mathematics features listed on its front page the name of Dov Yarden as one of its principal contributors Yarden is a noted Israeli […]
Lubavitch in Hungary
The night before I left Budapest to return to New York, I phoned Rabbi Baruch Oberlander, the Lubavitch emissary in Hungary for for some information. When I apologized for phoning […]
Moshe Kosovksy’s Otzar Leshon Talmud Yerushalmi
A short time ago the last volume of Moshe Kosovksy’s Otzar Leshon Talmud Yerushalmi (Concordance of the Jerusalem Talmud) was published in Jerusalem. The work, which is based on the […]
“Yiddish and English”
In “Yiddish and English- A Century of Yiddish in America,” Sol Steinmetz set himself the task of describing the relationship between Yiddish and English and their influences on each other. […]
The Custom of Eating Latkes on Hanukkah
Rabbi Moshe Isserles mentions in the Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim (670/2) the custom of eating cheese on Hanukkah and states the reason. This custom is already mentioned — as indicated […]
Rabbi Chaim Yehoshua Kasovsky
Rabbi Chaim Yehoshua Kasovsky, who died recently at the age of eighty- eight, was one of the many great and brilliant scholars with which Jerusalem was blessed in the last […]