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Sulzburg is a small town in south-western Germany, not very far from the Swiss city of Basel. Jews first settled there in the 15th century, In 1546 they were granted […]

For almost two weeks my wife and I traveled through West Germany attending November 9 commemorations and visiting places of Jewish historical interest as well as tombs of Gedolei Yisrael, […]

The late Dr. Manfred Lehmann was a many sided person. He was a very successful international businessman, a fine Judaic scholar, a Passionate collector of Hebrew books and a well […]

Machazor HaGra for Rosh HaShana containing laws, customs, comments and explanations culled from the writings of the Gaon of Vilna has just arrived in this country from Jerusalem The compiler, […]

“Rebbe, do you recognize me?” asked a young man. He had come especially to Bnei Brak to greet his benefactor who had arrived for a visit in Israel. “I was […]

Rabbi Yehudah Bibas was the scion of a prominent rabbinical family of Morocco, which had originated in Spain.  He was born in Gibraltar, where he spent his youth studying Torah. […]

The celebrated British Jewish writer and historian Martin Gilbert, biographer of Winston Churchill and author of many books, including several on the Holocaust and on Israel, presented us recently with […]

Until about a hundred years ago almost the entire Judeo-Greek literary heritage of Romaniot communities – translations of books of the Bible and songs= remained in manuscript. The only two […]

For several centuries Corfu was one of the chief suppliers of Ethrogim to Jews all over the world. The use of Corfu Ethrogim by Jews is already mentioned by Giovanni […]