More on Yetziv Pitgam
Several years ago I wrote in this column about the Piyut Yetziv Pigam which is recited on the second day of Shavuot before the reading of the Haftara. I remarked […]
Menachem Begin, Z”L- Man of Faith and Tradition
On his First Yahrzeit Last week was Menachem Begin’s first Yahrzeit. This and the following articles were written with the reverence and love, which we, former soldiers of the Irgun […]
Yaakov Edelstein
Several months after the Six Day War, the sons of the settlers of Kfar Etzion, occupied and destroyed by the Arabs in 1948, returned to the desolated site to rebuild […]
Budapest’s Jewish Hotel
I visited Budapest several times since the end of World War II. I stayed in various places (at one time under the Communist regime, foreign visitors were confined to certain […]
Moshe Dayan
The ballroom of the Hilton Hotel was packed to capacity. Three thousand delegates and guests attended the banquet of the United Jewish Appeal’s annual conference at which Moshe Dayan, Israel’s […]
Yen HaTov on the Targumim
In his introduction to Yen HaTov on the Aramaic translations of the Torah, Rabbi Alter Tovia Wein of Rehovot speaks of the importance of studying the Targumim. He relates that […]
Professor Jacob I. Dienstag, Maimonides Scholar
On Sunday March 22, Haifa’s Maimonides Research Center held its First National Awards Dinner at the Plaza Hotel. Several persons, including Dr. Henry J. Heimlich famous medical innovator and discoverer […]
Moshe Prager
Moshe Prager has been a pioneer in Holocaust research. His work “Horban Yisrael Be’Erupa,” which appeared in 1948 was the first comprehensive book about the extermination of European Jewry. He […]
The Late Baruch Strassburger
Baruch (Bert) Strassburger died a short time ago in Frankfurt on the Main at the age of 76. Strassburger, who was born in Arad, Rumania, was an extraordinary individual His […]
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 […]