The walls were studded with canvasses: Israeli landscapes, Jerusalem street scenes, a general view of the Holy City, Hasidim dancing, musicians, flowers. Extraordinary pictures by an unusual artist. Zvi Raphaely […]
Last week was the third anniversary of the death of Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky, one of the rabbinic luminaries of our generation. Rabbi Abramsky studied at Telz and other Yeshivas and […]
Several weeks ago, on the 3rd of Kislev, we commemorated the tenth anniversary of the death of Rabbi Shilo Raphael, who had served as head of a Jerusalem rabbinical court […]
Rabbi Shilo Raphael, Av Beth Din of the Jerusalem Rabbinical District Court, died on the 3rd of Kislev (6th of November) at the young age of 54. He was buried […]
The reading of Pirkei Avot on Sabbath is an old custom. It goes back to the period of the Geonim and may even predate it. The custom varies in different […]
On May 12, [1981] important Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts from the famous collection of David Sassoon were auctioned off in Sotheby Parke Bernet on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. […]
For years now, the New York Office of the Diskin Orphan Home of Israel- the country’s best known educational institution for orphans, children from broken homes and poor families, as […]
I was privileged to see Nuremberg in ruins. In 1947 I travelled with a friend from Brussels to Prague. The train stopped for a short time in Nuremberg. We got […]
On the Sabbath following Passover we started reciting Pirket Avot (The Ethics of the Fathers). Each Sabbath one chapter is said. Sefaradim, who recite Avot only until the Sabbath before […]
Dr. Manfred Lehmann wears many hats. He is a successful businessman, a world traveler, a philanthropist, a bibliophile, a scholar and a publicist. He is not only good at business, […]