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“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 […]

The night before I left Budapest to return to New York, I phoned Rabbi Baruch Oberlander, the Lubavitch emissary in Hungary for for some information. When I apologized for phoning […]

In “Yiddish and English- A Century of Yiddish in America,” Sol Steinmetz set himself the task of describing the relationship between Yiddish and English and their influences on each other. […]

Rabbi Moshe Isserles mentions in the Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim (670/2) the custom of eating cheese on Hanukkah and states the reason. This custom is already mentioned — as indicated […]

Rabbi Chaim Yehoshua Kasovsky, who died recently at the age of eighty- eight, was one of the many great and brilliant scholars with which Jerusalem was blessed in the last […]