A Note on a Yom Kippur Piyut
During the last one hundred and fifty years great rabbis and scholars wrote important and interesting notes on the prayers and Piytim, but because these were published in periodicals or […]
Dr. Samuel Rosen
Early in 1952, after ten years of intensive study, Dr. Samuel Rosen discovered a new method of restoring hearing in people who suffered from otosclerosis, a common form of deafness. […]
A Brilliant Interpretation by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
In his commentary on the Torah, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch offers a brilliant identification of the Adi (ornament) of the Israelites about which we read in Parashat Ki Tissa: “When […]
‘Hasidism on Display’ Exhibition at Central Library of Lubavitch
Last Tuesday, Isru Hag of the festival of Shavuot, an exhibition was opened at the central library of Lubavitch, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y. celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth […]
More on Yetziv Pitgam
Several years ago I wrote in this column about the Piyut Yetziv Pigam which is recited on the second day of Shavuot before the reading of the Haftara. I remarked […]
Menachem Begin, Z”L- Man of Faith and Tradition
On his First Yahrzeit Last week was Menachem Begin’s first Yahrzeit. This and the following articles were written with the reverence and love, which we, former soldiers of the Irgun […]
Yaakov Edelstein
Several months after the Six Day War, the sons of the settlers of Kfar Etzion, occupied and destroyed by the Arabs in 1948, returned to the desolated site to rebuild […]
Budapest’s Jewish Hotel
I visited Budapest several times since the end of World War II. I stayed in various places (at one time under the Communist regime, foreign visitors were confined to certain […]
Moshe Dayan
The ballroom of the Hilton Hotel was packed to capacity. Three thousand delegates and guests attended the banquet of the United Jewish Appeal’s annual conference at which Moshe Dayan, Israel’s […]
Yen HaTov on the Targumim
In his introduction to Yen HaTov on the Aramaic translations of the Torah, Rabbi Alter Tovia Wein of Rehovot speaks of the importance of studying the Targumim. He relates that […]