Shushandukht – Another Jewish Persian queen 900 years after Queen Esther
The Discovery of the Existence of a Jewish Queen In 1886, on a mission to research Afghani songs in India, a Jewish orientalist by the name of James Darmesteter discovered […]
David Sassoon, Bibliophile Par Excellence
Harav Chaim Ozer Grodzinski addressed him as “Hanaggid” (The Prince). (1) The Michtav MeEliyahu (Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler) came to his home to privately tutor his only son. (2) Named after […]
The Haggadah in Marathi Translation
The Pesach Haggadah has been translated into more than twenty languages, but one of the most unusual is the one translated into Marathi, the native language of the Jews of […]
Islamists Take Over Gravesite of Ezra HaSofer in Iraq
The Pan-Arab newswebsite Al-Araby recently reported that Islamic forces operating in the south of Iraq have seized control of the building housing a shul and the Kever of Ezra HaSofer […]
Purim of Basra (Iraq) The Massacre of 1776
The Givat Shaul neighborhood in Yerushalayim is named after Rabbi Yaakov Shaul Elyashar (1817-1906) who in 1893 became the Sephardic Chief Rabbi (Rishon Lezion) of Eretz Yisroel as well as […]
Assaf Harofeh, The Jewish Hippocrates
His Sefer Refuos is Earliest Known Extant Hebrew Medical Work According to tradition, the angel Rephael taught Noach all about healing the body and relayed to him different recipes for […]
Haym Salomon, Financier of the American Revolution
America celebrates its independence on July 4. What few in our community know is that the person responsible for saving the newly established nation from collapse was a frum Jew, […]
The Kidnapping of the Abarbanel’s Grandson
The ninth of Av ( 5252) 1492, was a dark day in the history of our people. After having occupied the Iberian peninsula for more than fourteen centuries, the Jewish […]
Passover Tragedy of Prague in 1389
Passover Tragedy of Prague by Pearl Herzog On Passover, more than six hundred years ago, as a result of young Jewish boys playing with some pebbles, almost the entire Prague […]
A Tale of Two Cities, Zdunska Wola and Pietrkow
Tuesday, March 2, 1942 should have been a beautiful Purim day in Zdunska Wola, a town about 28 miles southwest of Lodz, Poland . The day was bright and sunny […]