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In Print / Features On The Jewish World

The Forgotten Jew Who Developed The Cholera And Bubonic Plague Vaccines

By Saul Jay Singer

Although Haffkine personally donated funds to purchase land in Eretz Yisrael, he was not a political Zionist who considered a Jewish state as necessary for Jewish survival...

In Print / Features On The Jewish World / In Memoriam

Reflections from Rav Chaim's Levaya

By Rabbi Reuven Taragin

The masses who had visited Rav Chaim seeking his beracha and advice during his lifetime would not let anything keep them from coming to mourn and showing their respects and appreciation for him after his death.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Letters From An Antiquarian Bibliophile Of Note

By Israel Mizrahi

Deinard's antiquarian activities, which involved constant travel throughout Europe, the Orient and America, gave him a unique acquaintance with scholars, private collectors, fellow booksellers and libraries.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Pros And Cons Of The Chidon Ha-Tanach

By Saul Jay Singer

The success of the Chidon Ha-Tanach launched other Bible contests, including a competition sponsored by the IDF (Israel Defense Force), and numerous local and regional quizzes, usually also held on Yom Haatzmaut, reflecting the broad popularity of learning Torah even among secular Israelis.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

A Manuscript From The Rich Tradition Of Syrian Jews

By Israel Mizrahi

The manuscript, written in the late 19th century, contains a varied collection of songs in Arabic but written in the Hebrew alphabet, using the cursive Solitreo script.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

When Jews Wearing Masks On Purim Were Arrested Under The ‘Anti-Mask Law’

By Saul Jay Singer

Violators of the law could receive a six-month jail term. According to Superintendent Kennedy, the “masquerade or fancy dress ball or entertainment” exception apparently did not apply to Jews dressing up for Purim.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

A Reminder Of The Jewish Community Of Bulawayo, Rhodesia

By Israel Mizrahi

Jews were among the first Europeans to settle in Bulawayo; the first white child born there, in April, 1984, was Jewish.

In Print / Features

A Paratrooper Poet Walks Into A Painting Class

By Toby Klein Greenwald

As often is the case, the strongest motivational factor to do something is when somebody tells you that you can’t do it.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Rabbi Daina Of Slutsk And Canarsie

By Israel Mizrahi

When his grandfather passed away, Dov Yehuda Daina replaced him as judge and religious authority. He was raised in Slutsk during the first eleven years of his life and in fact began studying at the Slutsk yeshiva.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Malice In Wonderland

By Saul Jay Singer

It was on one of Carroll’s many boating trips with Alice and her sisters on July 4, 1862, that he originated the framework of the stories and, at Alice’s enthusiastic urging, decided to write the stories...

In Print / Features

Tzalash Infuses Army With Spirit

By Rosally Saltsman

There’s an ongoing debate among different religious circles as to what keeps Israel safe from its enemies – its army or its yeshiva students who learn Torah.

In Print / Features

Saving A Sister Vs. Saving Face

By Sarah Pachter

if we respect inanimate objects like challot, how much more so should we respect a person, made in the image of G-d?

In Print / Features

Taming The Dragon And Turning Outward

By Rosally Saltsman

Mechi wants to turn her erstwhile secret into a message. She wants to help other people with MS realize that, like her, there’s nothing that they can’t do.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

The Woman Who Hid Anne Frank – And The Dutch Jew Who Betrayed Her

By Saul Jay Singer

After conducting a years-long investigation, the team concluded that Arnold van den Bergh (1886-1950), a prominent Jewish businessman, a founder of the Jewish Council in Holland, and a notary for a German art dealer selling stolen Jewish art to Hermann Goering, was the most likely quisling.

In Print / Features / Sports

Sports Shadchan Tackles Super Bowl Week – Except On Shabbos

By Howard Blas

I daven three times a day and eat only kosher anywhere I am in the world. Pro-athletes are often more understanding than others since they understand regimens and daily routines.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Art Spiegelman: A Man Or A Maus?

By Saul Jay Singer

The story evolves during several sessions when an adult Artie comes to visit his cantankerous and eccentric elderly father, who is ill, in a bad second marriage, and still mourning the loss of Anja a decade earlier.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Six-Figure Auction Sales From Jerusalem And NYC

By Tsadik Kaplan

On November 23 in Jerusalem, Kedem held a sale composed of more than 100 lots of Hebrew books and manuscripts and two objects: a Chanukah menorah and a spice tower.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

A First Edition From A Moroccan Kabbalist

By Israel Mizrahi

Per legend, the night following their refusing to give approbations for this work, the rabbis of Jerusalem were visited by R. Yaakov Abuhatzeira in a dream in which they were reprimanded for their refusal.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

The History, Enduring Appeal, And Lost Songs Of Fiddler On The Roof

By Saul Jay Singer

When Stein showed Fiddler to Mostel, he was starring in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and he initially turned it down, but when he later heard a more complete version of the show, he enthusiastically signed on.

In Print / Features

The Only Money You Have

By Sarah Pachter

If you have a “hole,” you’ll give your money away to others and Hashem will pour blessings through you. But if you don’t do so and you remain closed, then you may even be made from gold, but Hashem will not pour His blessing through you.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Rachel Citron, Heroic Daughter Of The Rogatchover Gaon

By Israel Mizrahi

Much has been written about Rev. Mrs Citron and her devotion to publishing her father's writings.

In Print / Features

A Secret Jewish Past: Genealogist Genie Milgrom’s Multinational Journey to Uncover Her Roots

By Eve Glover

Milgrom decided to investigate her lineage strategically by employing the help of Fernando Gonzalez del Campo Roman, an ex-priest in Spain who is also an expert genealogist.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Irene Harand, Righteous Among The Nations

By Saul Jay Singer

I am fighting antisemitism because it defiles our Christianity.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

A Sefer Banned And Then Revived

By Israel Mizrahi

When the book was first published, the author's contemporaries in Egypt upon reading the book found that the author used harsh language in many places against other rabbis and their opinions.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

The Jewish Gambler Who Caused The Great Chicago Fire (On Simchat Torah!)

By Saul Jay Singer

As it turns out, this was a particularly fortuitous time for the Jews who, because they were dancing with their Torah scrolls when the fire reached their synagogues, were able to save most of them.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

A Book Stamped With Swastikas

By Israel Mizrahi

This volume, Land Israel, by a Jewish author, Ludwig Strauss, was published in Berlin in 1935, during the Nazi period.

Features / Kashrut Scene

Hate Now Served Online Against Kosher Restaurants

By Alan Zeitlin

"I'm not surprised that people hate," Goldberg told The Jewish Press. "I'm surprised that Google, a company worth billions of dollars doesn't have a way to stop this. How I could get 100 negative reviews on a Saturday when I'm not open.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

‘Digging’ Into The Yadin/Sukenik Archaeological Family

By Saul Jay Singer

Whoever hid the scrolls did an incredible job, as they were not discovered for 2,000 years and, in fact, they could well have remained hidden but for a fortuitous accident in 1947 when a goat wandered into a hollow.

Features On The Jewish World

Bergen Hatzalah Receives Licensure From NJ Dept. Of Health OEMS

By Jewish Press Staff

Being accountable to the Department of Health is important for the confidence of our patients and demonstrates governmental verification of Bergen Hatzalah’s commitment to the highest quality of patient care,” said Bergen Hatzalah Chief Joshua Hartman.

In Print / Features

Conquer Anger With The Four D’s

By Sarah Pachter

Mid-lecture, loud noises and music began playing behind a partition in the room, as the hotel was setting up for a concert and the musicians in the adjacent room were preparing for the show.

Torah / Features

The Talmudic Encyclopedia Reaches 75

By Toby Klein Greenwald

This magnificent project, the Talmudic Encyclopedia, gives students the breadth of the Torah…I read the entry on ‘chazaka’ ... this is a very difficult topic ... But if one reads this entry in the Talmudic Encyclopedia, it is so clear, it is so organized, all the intricate details, it’s astonishing.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Music And Murder: A Memento Of Theresienstadt

By Israel Mizrahi

For a time, cultural life at Theresienstadt was allowed to develop. Authors, scholars, musicians and Yiddish theatre actors gave performances.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

The Philosemitism Of Hans Christian Andersen

By Saul Jay Singer

Less known is that Andersen had deep affection for the Jewish people; that he was very familiar with Jewish tradition and culture... and that he maintained very close relationships with Jews and with the Jewish community.

Features

Facebook Removes Suspension Of Conservative Book Publisher

By Chaim Yehuda Meyer

Mandel said that by suspending the account, Facebook seems to have initially agreed with the inaccurate assertion that the advertising content violated its rules.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Books From Rabbi Eliyahu Rusoff: Do Not Rely On What I Write

By Israel Mizrahi

The author printed this story that happened to him on the title page of every book he published after this event.

In Print / Features

‘Kids Speak’ Author Chaim Walder Dead At 52

By Rachel Kohn

I think it is assur for people to be near anything connected to him, said Rabbi Eliyahu.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

The Holocaust Saga Of The “Bais Yaakov 93” – Myth Or Fact?

By Saul Jay Singer

The Feldman Letter was similarly not intended as a true historical account but rather as a call to rouse the American Jewish community from its lethargy in the form of an updated version of the kinah.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

List Of Selichot For 1935-1938 Found In German Volume

By Israel Mizrahi

Over the generations, German Jewry had accumulated numerous different Selichot prayers, and the custom developed to rotate the selections for each year...

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Whisked Away From Old Bombay

By Tsadik Kaplan

Your Mizrach is indeed beautiful, with depictions of Moshe and Aharon, symbols of The Twelve Tribes, and more.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

The “Tehran Children” Affair

By Saul Jay Singer

The children were initially welcomed by the Iranian public, but it grew hostile to the Jewish refugees, particularly after rising bread costs led to mass demonstrations in Iran.

In Print / Features

On a POSITIVE Note:Turning The Pages

By Sarah Pachter

Hashem gives us everything we have, but distractions abound, and we busy ourselves with everything besides connecting with our Creator.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

An Ancient Prayer – Not By R. Levi Yitzchok Of Berditchev

By Israel Mizrahi

The mis-attribution is the result of a book titled Shnei Hame’orot published in Kishinev in 1896.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Solicitor General To Weigh In On Terror Victims’ Supreme Court Case

By Chaim Yehuda Meyer

The question under review is whether the bank knowingly transferred substantial funds that aided and abetted terrorist acts and is therefore subject to civil liability under Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA).

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

The Eighth Day

By Saul Jay Singer

Though not prohibited, circumcision became highly regulated, and circumcision laws were passed with the stated purpose of promoting health and sanitation to conform with “German sensibilities,” but which were actually calculated to make performing a bris more difficult.

In Print / Features / Jewish Community

Summer-Home Residents Help Decide Fallsburg Election

By Ziona Greenwald, J.D.

Explaining why many Jewish homeowners in Fallsburg voted against Vegliante, Friedlander said, “Sometimes people are too parochial in the way they look at the issue as it pertains to them and only them. And they don’t understand the more complex picture.”

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

The Bet Yosef And The Censor

By Israel Mizrahi

Da Bologna was not the most brilliant of censors, and the Jewish Encyclopedia mentions several instances of his ignorance...

In Print / Features

JOWMA Covid-19 Vaccine Task Force

By Esther Kay

The new Covid-19 task force fills another void in the community: that created by the advent of the vaccine.

Featured / Features On The Jewish World

‘For These Do I Weep’ - The Hebron Massacre Of 1929

By Saul Jay Singer

After the massacre had run its course, the police commenced gathering the injured Jews, who were brought to the police station but left on the basement floor to fend for themselves.

Features / Arts

Star Six13 Singer Explains The Miracle of Making Music

By Jewish Press Staff

Weinstein said one thing that sets Six13 apart is their ability to perform original songs using texts from the Torah or words from the siddur.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Menorah Style – What’s Old Is New

By Tsadik Kaplan

It seems that a significant portion of European Jewry of the 19th and early 20th centuries desired Judaica resembling what their grandparents and great-grandparents used.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Caruso’s Favorite Chazzan

By Saul Jay Singer

In New York, he became the “go to” chazzan for the Jewish community’s philanthropic events, but his most legendary performance may have been his May 1917 appearance at the Hippodrome Theater to raise funds for Jews suffering in Europe during World War I.

In Print / Features

Seeing Is Believing: Increasing Our Sensitivity To Miracles

By Sarah Pachter

Missing out on seeing the miracles right in front of us is not unique to modern times. The Torah tells of many people who were unfazed and unchanged after witnessing incredible events.

In Print / Community / Features On The Jewish World

A Young Jewish Community Flourishes In Philadelphia

By Baruch Lytle

There are so many souls out there screaming for spirituality to fill their void, and they just aren’t sure, physically, how to get it.

In Print / Features / Marriage and Relationships

Popular Jewish Dating Show Returns After Covid Hiatus

By Baruch Lytle

Our goal was always to tell authentic stories from people who are choosing to be Orthodox but grappling with things that are difficult, all while showcasing real human emotion.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

The Anti-Semite At The Helm Of The British Mandate

By Saul Jay Singer

Notwithstanding Barker’s claim that he is not “anti-Jew,” his misrepresentations, including particularly his falsifications of Jewish history, underscore his flagrant anti-Semitism.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

A Jewish Bank And The Great Depression

By Israel Mizrahi

The New York Times reported that the run was based on a false rumor spread by a small local merchant, a holder of stock in the bank, who claimed that the bank had refused to sell his stock.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

The History, Massacre, And Rebirth Of Gush Etzion

By Saul Jay Singer

As Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Alon announced, We are back at Gush Etzion not as conquerors, but because this is part of our forefathers’ land.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

A 17th Century Find

By Israel Mizrahi

The shtadlan served as an intercessor for the local European Jewish community in matters that related to the local government.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Abba Hillel Silver And The Einstein Mystery

By Saul Jay Singer

Perhaps his greatest moment as a Zionist leader was when, as chairman of the American section of the Jewish Agency, he was chosen to present the case for an independent Jewish state before the United Nations Assembly on May 8, 1947.

Featured / Features / Interviews and Profiles

A Child Holocaust Survivor’s Recollections Of Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass

By Eve Glover

Auerbacher told The Jewish Press, “They were always looking for something to hang on the Jews … You always felt anti-Semitism, you felt it in the air, even before Kristallnacht …

In Print / Features

On Bicycles And Betterment

By Sarah Pachter

Personally, I had committed to learn a daily paragraph from the book A Lesson a Day but it sat mostly unused until I placed it in my line of vision, which enabled me to be more consistent.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Artful Copies

By Tsadik Kaplan

Your tray is of quite a large size, and you may have substantially more silver content than 40-45 troy ounces.

In Print / Features

Zionism Returns To Its Roots

By Esther Karman

The Ripple Effects of the Victories of Right-Wing Slates at the 2020 WZO Election

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Roman Vishniac’s Preservation Of A Vanished Jewish World

By Saul Jay Singer

He used his photographs to increase awareness in America and the western world of Nazi persecution and Hitler’s extermination plans for the Jewish people.

In Print / Features

DA Candidate Thomas Kenniff To Push Public Safety, Change In Criminal Justice Reform Laws

By Eve Glover

Kenniff plans to lobby to change the bail reform law, which he believes is responsible for criminals being set free, since bail can no longer be set for many offenses.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

A Machzor For Returning Marranos

By Israel Mizrahi

The community was unusual, though, in the large number of adults that grew up without a proper Jewish education, many of whom were unable read and recite the Hebrew prayers. The response was a flurry of printing in the Spanish and Portuguese languages, such as this prayerbook.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

Philipp Lenard: ‘Aryan Physics’ vs. Einstein’s ‘Jew Physics’

By Saul Jay Singer

Lenard fought hard to ensure that Einstein, the “pure-blooded Jew,” would not win a Nobel Prize; in fact, the decision by the Nobel Committee not to award any physics prize in 1921 was due, at least in part, to anti-Semitic pressure brought to bear by Lenard.

In Print / Features

Is There A Constitutional Right To Cheesecake?

By Ziona Greenwald, J.D.

Curiously, the plaintiffs asserted that their faith requires them to consume both a meat and a dairy meal on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays.

In Print / Features

Civil Service Groups Endorse Cranston For City Council

By Eve Glover

We need to expand the minds of our children, especially in technology. That’s where the future jobs are going to be, Cranston said.

In Print / Features

The Internet Crossroads

By Daniel Coleman

While I don’t have access to the daily calendars of most angels, it’s just possible that they may have some spare time on their hands.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

A Haggadah With A Map

By Israel Mizrahi

The map was created for an earlier edition of this Haggadah, first printed in 1695, a birth of a new trend of Haggadot publications, with illustrations and iconography.

In Print / Featured / Features

Financial Planning For Frum Families: There Is Nothing Average About An Orthodox Lifestyle

By Jonathan I. Shenkman

If you explain to a gentile friend or co-worker the concept of making a Thanksgiving feast twice a week (Shabbos dinner and lunch), they will think you are out of your mind.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

The Anti-Nazi Boycott vs. The Haavara Agreement: Still A Provocative Question

By Saul Jay Singer

The effect of the boycott was particularly profound in the United States, where German imports were reduced by nearly 25 percent, and in Eretz Yisrael, where most doctors refused to prescribe German medicines, resulting in great losses to German pharmaceutical companies.

In Print / Features

Trailblazing

By Daniel Coleman

I suggested we simulate her experience at home by setting our router on a time switch to go off at 9 p.m., but was dissuaded by the look of horror on his face.

In Print / Features

Steven Saperstein Endorsed By Police In City Council Race

By Eve Glover

One of the issues Saperstein is passionate about is for all Jewish children to have access to a Jewish education.

In Print / Features On The Jewish World

A Rare Volume From The Time Of The False Messiah

By Israel Mizrahi

One custom that gained popularity during this time was the practice of saying additional prayers and selihot in the early mornings.

In Print / Features

Deciding Happiness

By Sarah Pachter

We often ask, “Why me?” when faced with a challenge. Hone said when her daughter passed away, she realized the better question was, “Why not me?”

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