Four Rare Commentaries on Esther
With the approach of Purim, Chaim Eleazar Reich, Boro Park’s publisher of rare books, has put out reproductions of four old commentaries on Esther. R. Zecharya Ibn Saruk was an […]
With the approach of Purim, Chaim Eleazar Reich, Boro Park’s publisher of rare books, has put out reproductions of four old commentaries on Esther. R. Zecharya Ibn Saruk was an […]
The Sabbath Between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur is called Shabbath Teshuva (Sabbath of Repentance) or Shabbat Shuva (named for the Haftara Shuvu Yisrael — Hosea 14: 2-10– which is […]
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 […]
It is a measure of the great interest in old Hebrew manuscripts and books that not long after “A Sign and a Witness” an exhibition which brought together 186 Hebrew […]
Dr. Isaac Lewin has been active throughout his life in two distinct areas of human endeavor. He is a scholar, a distinguished historian of Polish Jewry and has played a […]
On March 19, 1944, the German army marched into Hungary. Before long anti-Jewish laws were introduced, Jews were arrested, Jewish property was confiscated, ghettos were established and the mass deportation […]
During the last one hundred and fifty years great rabbis and scholars wrote important and interesting notes on the prayers and Piytim, but because these were published in periodicals or […]
Early in 1952, after ten years of intensive study, Dr. Samuel Rosen discovered a new method of restoring hearing in people who suffered from otosclerosis, a common form of deafness. […]
In his commentary on the Torah, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch offers a brilliant identification of the Adi (ornament) of the Israelites about which we read in Parashat Ki Tissa: “When […]
Last Tuesday, Isru Hag of the festival of Shavuot, an exhibition was opened at the central library of Lubavitch, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y. celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth […]