In the Shadow of the Alhambra
From all over Spain foreign tourists flock to Granada to see the historical sights of this city. “1492 was a very important year in the history of Spain,” the tourist […]
Rabbi Yitzhak Alfasi’s Responsa
A short time ago Rabbi Abba Leiter, a son of the late Rabbi Ze’ev Wolf Leiter of Pittsburgh, reprinted his father’s edition of Rabbi Yitachak Alfasi’s responsa. “Rabbi Yitzhak Alfasi […]
Dr. Isaac Rivkind, Bibliographer
Dr. Isaac Rivkind recently wrote: “I am writing this with deep grief and with the feeling that if ‘I will not tell, I will have to bear my sin,’ I […]
The Jews of Haiti
Haiti occupies the western one-third of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea between Cuba and Puerto Rico. The island was discovered by Columbus in 1492, on his first […]
Midreshei Philo by the Late Dr. S. Belkin
The late Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of Yeshiva University, was one of the few Jewish scholars who devoted themselves to the study of the writings of Philo, the Alexandrian Jewish […]
Holocaust Commemoration in Budapest
Next Sunday, July 3, commemorative ceremonies on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the destruction of Hungarian Jewry will be held in Budapest. The commemoration will take place at the […]
The Late Rabbi Symcha Elberg’s Einei HaEda
Einei HaEda (The Eyes of the Community) is the name of the late Rabbi Symcha Elberg’s latest book, which appeared posthumously a short time ago. The Hebrew volume, carrying the […]
At the Haffkine Institute in Bombay
In 1896 the bubonic plague broke out in Bombay. The Indian government asked Waldemar M. Haffkine to investigate the cause of the plague and to attempt to develop a vaccine […]
Waldemar Haffkine (Mordecai Zeev) On the 70th Anniversary of His Death
The 3rd of Heshvan 5761 will mark the 70th anniversary of the death of Waldemar (Mordecai Zeev) Haffkine, the famous bacteriologist who discovered vaccines against the cholera and the bubonic […]
I was a Dr. Schoenfeld “Kind”
I was a “Rabbi Schoenfeld Kind.” After the Kristallnacht pogrom of November, 1938, the British government declared its readiness to admit several thousand Jewish children into Great Britain. The Chief […]