Yad HaRav Nissim
In recent years, we have seen the emergence in Jerusalem of an important new Torah teaching and research center: Yad HaRav Nissim, established in memory of the late Rishon LeTzion […]
A Visit to Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer
It was in the summer of 1948. I was being transferred from a camp in the central sector of Israel to the northern front. On my way, I had to […]
The Blessing of the Hafetz Hayyim
Several months ago a festive gathering was held at the Palm Tree nursing home in Boro Park. The occasion was the celebration of the hundredth birthday of one of the […]
A Story and Its Twin
This year is the 200th anniversary of the death of the Gaon of Vilna. May we relate here a little known story about the Gaon. The same story is also […]
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein
He shrugged his shoulders and made a helpless movement with his hands. “What is there to write about me? What could I tell you? I am only a “poshute” (plain) […]
Rabbi Raphael Shapiro
Four years ago during a visit to Greece, I met at the synagogue of Athens, Rabbi Yaakov Arrar, the rabbi of the local Jewish community, and Rabbi Yitzchak Mezzan his […]
Rabbi David Cohen, the Nazir
Soon after Israeli troops entered the Old City of Jerusalem, an army jeep was sent to the Kerem Abraham Quarter of the modern city to take Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook […]
Rabbi Yaakov of Lissa
Recently I received a biography of Rabbi Yaakov of Lissa, the “Netivoth” written by Abraham Yitzhak Bromberg. Bromberg, a rabbi from Poland now residing in Jerusalem, is the author of […]
Rabbi Tuvia Wein Visits the U.S.
Rabbi Tuvia Wein, the scion of a famous rabbinical family and one of the few students of the Chafetz Chaim still among us, has arrived for a visit in the […]
Rav Arye Levin ZT”L
With the approach of Passover, my thoughts inevitably turn back to an event which took place on Hol HaMoed Pesah five years ago. Nowhere else, even in Israel itself is […]