Yitzchak Raphael
Several years ago, Yitzhak Raphael announced plans for the establishment in Jerusalem of Yad Harav Maimon, a world center for Torah and Juaic studies. It was to include the Mosad […]
Hebrew Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Palatino in Parma
(Continued) In his introduction, Benjamin Richler tells us about the catalogue’s description of the manuscripts. “For practical reasons, we have chosen to describe the 1600 manuscripts of the Palatina collection […]
Rabbi Shmuel Hubner
In 1952, a Yiddish translation of the Talmud, tractate “Baba Kama” by Rabbi Shmuel Hubner appeared. Nine yeears later his translation of “Baba Metzia” was published. These editions proved to […]
Menachem Begin, Z”L
Part II Once when talking with Yehiel Kadishai about Begin’s sensitive Jewish heart, the long-time secretary and confidante of the late Prime Minister remarked: “Let me tell you how Begin […]
Atzeret, The Mishna’s Name for Shavuot
In the Mishna and in the Talmuud the festival of Shavuot is called Atzeret. What is the meaning of this name and why was the festival called so? A variety […]
A New Commentary on Yerushalmi Shekalim
For about 200 years- from the third quarter of the 15th century until the dissolution of the “Council of the Four Lands” in 1765– the same tractate of Talmud was […]
Pen More Perilous than the Sword
Letter to the Editor Jerusalem Post 2/15/2007 Sir, I was pleased to read that Bar-Ilan University is seeking to query Prof. Ariel Toaff about his book Pasque di Sangue (Bloody […]
Matzot in Havana
Letter to the Editor of Jerusalem Post, April 2, 2007 Sirs, “Cigars, salsa and shmaltz” (February 16) talked about the Canadian Jewish Congress’s supply of kosher-for-Pessah food to the “small […]
Rabbi Israel Joshua Trunk, The Rabbi of Kutno
Yehoshua Eibeshitz, himself a Holocaust survivor, is known throughout the Jewish world as an author of books, studies, essays and articles about the fate of the Jews in the countries […]
End of ‘Maimonides Year’
This Erev Pesach marks the end of “Maimonides Year.” which was observed on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the birth of the great sage. Though scholars now agree […]