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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 […]

Barukh Strassburger’s Hebrew book Reshimot Shenot Dor carries the English explanatory subtitle “Timely Reflections and Timeless Rabbinic Ideas” (Memories, Remarks, notes, lectures, speeches). The volume is verily a collection of […]

Last week Dr. Martin Buchband, one of the world’s leading ear, nose and throat specialists, died in New York at the age of eighty. He was not only a well […]

Prof. Moshe Bar Asher of the Hebrew University has published in recent years several studies about the particular religious customs of the Jews of southwestern France. Prof. Bar-Asher discusses the […]

  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 […]

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 […]

Hundreds of supercommentaries have been composed on Rashi’s commentary on the Torah. Those who wrote commentaries include leading rabbinic personalities, such as Rabbi Israel Isserlein (author of Trumat Hadeshen), R. […]

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 […]

Sarah Bayla Hirschenson,(1816-1905) a magnetic Rebbetzin from Pinsk was the first Ashkenazi woman of her time to learn to speak Arabic; she helped her husband establish Yeshivas in Tzfas and […]