“Kristallnacht, Prelude to Destruction”
The celebrated British Jewish writer and historian Martin Gilbert, biographer of Winston Churchill and author of many books, including several on the Holocaust and on Israel, presented us recently with […]
A Hundred Years of Religious Zionism
The Mizrachi, founded a century ago in Vilna, celebrates this year 100 years of religious Zionism. The opening evening of the 27th World Conference of Mizrachi, held recently in Jerusalem, […]
Mossad Harav Kook’s Anniversary
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of its founding (1937) Mossad HaRav Kook, Israel’s largest publishing house for religious literature, put out two volumes under the title HaSefer (The […]
Grandma – a Book About Devorah Sternbuch
Some time ago, I leafed through some old Jewish newspapers. There was the first issue of HaDerekh, published in Zurich by the Central Office of the Agudath Israel. It carried […]
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Berlin’s Tzava Rav
(Continued from last week) Machon Yerushalayim’s edition of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch’s notes and novellae on the Mishna, the Tur and the Shulhan Arukh is introduced in a foreward by Rabbi […]
Hilkhot Shofar, Sukka and Lulav in English
This is the fifth volume of the new edition of Maimondes’ Mishne Torah with fully voweled text English translation and commentary, pbulsihed by “Moznaim.” The first volume containing Hilkot beth […]
עוד על ספרים נדפסים על ידי גויים
הגיע לידי גליון הדואר מיום ט”ז בשבט תשל”ד ובעמוד 236 מצאתי הערתו של ט. פרשל לעדותו של ריב”ל בענין ספרים הנדפסים על ידי נוכרים, וראיתי להעיר שדברי ריב”ל כבר ציינתי […]
A Few Words About a ‘Piyut’
Among the Kinnot we recite on the night of Tisha B’Av is one which describes the mourning of the hosts of heaven over the destruction of the Temple. Not only […]
Pen More Perilous than the Sword
Letter to the Editor Jerusalem Post 2/15/2007 Sir, I was pleased to read that Bar-Ilan University is seeking to query Prof. Ariel Toaff about his book Pasque di Sangue (Bloody […]