Physician Only Has Permission to Heal…
Dr. Michael Braver writes in his Pe’er Yitzhak that Rabbi Yitzhak Eisik of Zhidachov was once asked to pray for a sick person. When he was told that the doctor […]
Dramatic Episode From Six Day War
Shortly after the Six Day War, Col. Mordechai Gur, who commanded the paratroop brigade with liberated the Old City of Jerusalem was appointed military advisor of the Israeli delegation in […]
Shabbetai Don-Yehiya : Editor of Hatsofe
He forcefully voices religious Jewry’s views on current affairs and problems of the State, and in a brilliant manner, he sets forth their attitudes and demands. He writes with much […]
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
It was about a week after Pesach. My wife and I were sitting in the villa of Shmuel Yosef Agnon in the Talpiot section of Jerusalem. Time passed quickly in […]
The Rabbinic Literature of the Scholars of Aleppo
Aleppo is Syria (which the Jews identified as the Biblical Aram Tzova and called, in short Are”Tz) was for many centuries, a center of Torah studies. The city’s Jewish community […]
Remember!
The association Zakhor! (“Remember”) was formed many years ago by Yisrael Yehoshua Eibeschitz, a Holocaust survivor from Poland for the purpose of keeping alive among our people, the memory of […]
The Blessing of the Hafetz Hayyim
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 […]
Maimonides Exhibition in Jerusalem
“The Great Eagle at the JNUL” is the name of the exhibition of Maimonides’ works presently held at the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem on the occasion of […]
Rabbi Solomon Sassoon
The Sassoon were called the “Rothschilds of the East.” In the first half of the nineteenth century, David Sassoon, a scion of a family of Jewish community leaders of Baghdad, […]
‘Treasures Revealed’: An Extraordinary Exhibition in Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. On this occasion, the Jewish National and Hebrew University Library has placed on display some of its finest […]