Rabbi Yehoshua Hutner, Director of Yad Harav Herzog
Friday, June 2, 1967, six o’clock in the morning the Israel radio announced that a new national government composed of the major parties had been established. The news was received […]
Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin
For more than thirty-five years the name of Rabbi Y.E. Henkin has been synonymous with that of “Ezras Torah.” The Ezras Torah Fund was established in 1915 for the purpose […]
The Sekulener Rav
“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 Abraham Farbstein
After the death of Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin, the great editor-in-chief of the Talmudic Encyclopedia, changes were made in the composition of the editorial board. Rabbi Yona Merzbach, who had […]
After the Fast
Rabbi Joel Leib Herzog – the father of Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac HaLevi Herzog, the late Chief Rabbi of Israel relates in one of his books (Imrei Yoel, part 3, London, […]
A Pesach Story Told About Five Rabbis
Mordechai Lipson relates in his Midor Dor (vol. 3, p. 117, no. 2086) the following about Rabbi Yoshe Ber Soloveichik of Brisk: A few days before Passover a man called […]
Zamenhof Street in Tarragona, Spain
Consulting a map of Tarragona in order to find my way about the city, I noticed to my great surprise a street called Zamenhof. I could not believe my […]
Saul Lieberman On the Occasion of his 75th Birthday
In the spring of 1970, a team of archeologists uncovered at En-Gedi the mosaic pavement of a synagogue from the Byzantine period. The reading of the inscription in the […]
The Beautiful but Unused Chuppah Room of the Leningrad Synagogue
The report in the media of the celebration of religious marriages for a group of Russian-Jewish couples, who came to the U.S. in recent years brought back to me memories […]
The Baal Shem of Michelstadt
The Baal Shem of Michelstadt Impressions of a visit to his native town Rabbi Yitzhak Arye (Sekel Loeb) Wormser, known as the Baal Shem of Michelstadt, was one of […]