In recent years, we have seen the emergence in Jerusalem of an important new Torah teaching and research center: Yad HaRav Nissim, established in memory of the late Rishon LeTzion […]

Several months ago a festive gathering was held at the Palm Tree nursing home in Boro Park. The occasion was the celebration of the hundredth birthday of one of the […]

This year is the 200th anniversary of the death of the Gaon of Vilna. May we relate here a little known story about the Gaon. The same story is also […]

He shrugged his shoulders and made a helpless movement with his hands. “What is there to write about me? What could I tell you? I am only a “poshute” (plain) […]

Four years ago during a visit to Greece, I met at the synagogue of Athens, Rabbi Yaakov Arrar, the rabbi of the local Jewish community, and Rabbi Yitzchak Mezzan his […]

Soon after Israeli troops entered the Old City of Jerusalem, an army jeep was sent to the Kerem Abraham Quarter of the modern city to take Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook […]

Recently I received a biography of Rabbi Yaakov of Lissa, the “Netivoth” written by Abraham Yitzhak Bromberg. Bromberg, a rabbi from Poland now residing in Jerusalem, is the author of […]

Rabbi Tuvia Wein, the scion of a famous rabbinical family and one of the few students of the Chafetz Chaim still among us, has arrived for a visit in the […]

With the approach of Passover, my thoughts inevitably turn back to an event which took place on Hol HaMoed Pesah five years ago. Nowhere else, even in Israel itself is […]