The Rabbinic Literature of the Scholars of Aleppo
Aleppo is Syria (which the Jews identified as the Biblical Aram Tzova and called, in short Are”Tz) was for many centuries, a center of Torah studies. The city’s Jewish community […]
Rabbi Solomon Sassoon
The Sassoon were called the “Rothschilds of the East.” In the first half of the nineteenth century, David Sassoon, a scion of a family of Jewish community leaders of Baghdad, […]
Stefan Zweig Exhibition in Jerusalem
On June 20th, the exhibition “Stefan Zweig ” a European from Austria” opened at the Jewish National and University Library of Jerusalem. It was organized by the municipality of Salzburg, […]
The Rabbi in the Nazi Uniform
During the German occupation of Hungary, members of the Zionist youth movements — “the Zionist underground” — played a major role in the rescue of Jews by the mass […]
Nisim Behar
Four hundred youngsters participate each Sabbath at services a the Knesset Yisrael Synagogue in Galata, the Jewish quarter in the center of Istanbul. Tow hundred boys and girls come to […]
At the Graveside of Menasseh Ben Israel
The Potuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam — founded early in the seventeenth century by Marranos from Spain and Portugal was for a long period the largest and most wealthy […]
Rabbi Yehudah Leib Kagan
New York is a city with a large populace. Each of us meets and knows many persons, and it is precisely because of this that we really do not know […]
Suleika Hachuel
In the Jewish cemetery of Fez, Morrocco — the city we associate with the Rif and the Rambam — stands a monument, the gravesite of a beautiful young woman, who […]
Court Jewess Madame Kaulla
Reputed to be the wealthiest woman in Germany in her time, Chaile Raphael Kaulla served as a treasurer at the Royal Wurttemberg court, while raising a family and supporting a […]
The Corfu Blood Libel of 1891
And the Disappearance of the Ethrog from Corfu For several centuries Corfu was one of the chief suppliers of Ethrogim to Jews all over the world. The use of Corfu […]