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The government, ruling out a state funeral, decided that the reinternment would be a private affair, to the point that Shimon Peres, then the Deputy Minister of Defense, refused to even permit the formal participation of the IDF.
Now we are faced with a different challenge. How do we fit our newfound Shabbos, filled with reinvigorated ruchniyus and marked by a greater focus on family, into this recently changed and mostly positive reality?
Daily, he would lie in a coffin to remind himself of the day of death and dispel any thoughts of haughtiness.
In his first essay, a well received article published in The Orient (1844-45), he emerged as a powerful champion of traditional Orthodoxy and, as per his mentor, an opponent of Reform Judaism.
This rare Yiddish edition was translated anonymously, and since a romantic view of the New World was common in prospective Jewish immigrants...
“[W]e were successful in the spring and we will be successful once again,” the group said in a statement released on Monday.
Kabbalistically, seven circuits represents completion and perfection, particularly with respect to G-d’s creation of the world.
His general knowledge drew the ire of many chassidim, and one can find sharp attacks against him in chassidic writings of the day and equally vicious remarks of the Maharatz Chayes towards the chassidim of his era.
If it can be determined that your chanukiah is an authentic original, the value would be $2,500 -$3,500.
I am a Jew. That is a fact [and] you do me no injury by reminding me of the race to which I belong and have never renounced and toward which I feel only gratitude and pride.
Over the course of the 18th century, the Ashkenazi population of The Hague grew to surpass that of the Portuguese, the latter being the earlier and more establishment community in the Netherlands.
Temple proved to be one of the great outspoken advocates for the Jewish victims of the Reich. ... He regularly and unabashedly took publicly unpopular positions, including advocacy for England and its allies to grant asylum to Jews able to escape Hitler.
We can see that the rabbis in the Talmud themselves understood and found error in the practices of those times.
On September 13th, J. Greenstein & Co., located in Brooklyn, offered a wide array of Jewish ceremonial objects, both antique and modern.
On several occasions after the meeting, Ben-Gurion expressed his enchantment with the Chazon Ish.
Under his signature appears the address 50 West 120th St. in New York City – his address in Harlem when Jews were a dominant presence in the neighborhood.
By Tzvi Fishman
Once I met with members of the community, learned more about their history, traditions, and customs, I became convinced – as fanciful as it may sound – that they are in fact our lost brethren and that we needed to help them.
Baden-Powell supporters reason that given its emphasis on discipline and the supremacy of the “greater good” and his belief that “every boy ought to learn how to shoot and obey orders,” it is hardly surprising that authoritarian governments were drawn to some aspects of Scouting philosophy.
By Marc Gronich
By and large I think people expected it. I don’t think anyone was surprised that Kosherfest wasn’t going to take place in November.
Publishing a linear translation in early printing was a remarkable achievement considering the primitive printing process available at the time.
Henry Kissinger, who had fled to America when he was 15, served in the Army during the war, and later noted that his service had made him into a real American.
Perhaps I idealized Agudas Yisroel too much and as such have consistently been let down by reality.
For example, New York Daily News sports editor Paul Gallico wrote in the mid-1930s that basketball "appeals to the Hebrew with his Oriental background [because] the game places a premium on an alert, scheming mind and flashy trickiness, artful dodging and general smart-alecness."
There really is no market for this type of ware among collectors of Jewish items, except perhaps to be purchased on a whim if seen at a flea market.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rabbi Samson will teach a special 32-session course designed for bar mitzvah boys that will provide an overview on the 613 mitzvot, with a concentration on the daily mitzvot such as prayer and those related to Shabbat. A parallel course for bat mitzvah girls will also be offered.
The letter is written on behalf of Chinuch Atzmai, the independent education system of the charedim in Israel which was led at the time by Rav Ahron Kotler.
Oppenheimer was a strong Israel supporter who played an important role in the development of the Jewish state’s nuclear capability.
Many Jews may not get an opportunity to pray with their synagogue of choice – or any synagogue for that matter – unless they signed/paid up well in advance.
By Marc Gronich
We just feel completely blessed by Hashem. Wherever we go after this stop we know that it’s G-d’s blessing.
In post-1917 Russia, Judaism and Zionism (and the Hebrew language) came under attack, so manuscripts such as this one often had to pass secretly from hand to hand.
By Eve Glover
An Israeli pilot later flew on the aircraft with Redfa, simulating war games against other Israeli pilots so they could discover problems associated with the plane.
In the case of a non-serious violation of procedures, it is better to address the violation in private.
Though Rav Maimon lost his battle to include the phrase “and its redeemer,” he had the final word when, after Ben-Gurion completed his speech at the signing ceremony that fateful Friday afternoon, he rose and proudly recited the Shecheyanu blessing.
Surviving the war with Rudolf Kasztner's assistance in Switzerland, R. Weissmandl made every effort to alert the world to the Nazi’s crimes, mostly to deaf ears.
For her outspokenness, Loomer has been banned from Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms.
By Tzvi Fishman
Protestors demanded that we break down the fence surrounding Kfar Maimon.... Yesha leaders and rabbis called for patience. All through the night and the following morning, the tension increased.
By Tzvi Fishman
It isn't something readily comprehensible when your own Jewish army and Jewish government throw you out of your home in the Jewish homeland.
As we sat on the bus, we watched heart-rending scenes. Infants were ripped from the arms of their mothers. People were dragged out of their homes kicking and screaming.
After recovering from their initial shock, rescue forces at the site began to evacuate people and treat the injured, but there were insufficient paramedics available to handle the emergency.
Coffee wasn’t the only reason societies of the kind described above proliferated during this period.
As I sit now with my book of Tehillim, my mother's words echo loudly in my head. "Pray! Use your ko'ach tefilah and pray!"
Rabbi Taragin told The Jewish Press that quarantine isn’t the only change facing the boys and girls hoping to study in Israel this year. The school set up will be different too.
There is no difference in attitude towards the colonizer whether the local inhabitants are of a high cultural level or primitive.
A communication system must be developed with the school’s plan. The “responsible parties” will have to organize communication between the school’s administration, teachers, parents and the students.
By Tzvi Fishman
While Rav Kook's love for the Jewish people knew no bounds, one should not think that he was some sort of liberal, reform rabbi who believed that everyone was free to do his own thing, G-d forbid.
The public, furious that the very source of their confidence in its investment – the government’s backing of the loans – turned out to be a crucial factor in the Panama Canal Scandal, was eager for a scapegoat. Drumont came along and gave them one: the Jews.
I am familiar with the pieces in your set because I have seen them repeatedly over the years, usually offered for sale individually.
This “Kehillot Moshe" edition contains an astounding 36 different commentaries on Tanach as well as the complete introductions of each of these commentaries, a feature often lacking in other Mikraot Gedolot editions.
If a person who is asked about someone remains silent because he doesn’t know with certainty that a certain rumor is true, the questioner understands from his silence that there is room for concern.
Beginning in 1891, the Pasteur Institute opened facilities in different countries, and currently there are 32 institutes in 29 countries in various parts of the world.
I just acquired a full run of the Yiddish periodical Iddishe Bilder, published in Riga, Latvia, between May 1937 and September 1939.
Lashon hara is considered a grave sin because it poisons society and inter-personal relations to the point that our Sages compared it to the three severest sins together: idol worship, incest, and bloodshed.
By Baila Sebrow
Other shadchanim mean well, but don’t know how to express their thoughts gently. Sometimes, it’s not what is said, but how it’s conveyed that makes all the difference.
For some reason, when it comes to the shidduch world, it is considered normal – even "the Torah way" – for singles to put their fate entirely in the hands of strangers.
By Baruch Lytle
Zik and Newman’s backgrounds are diverse – as are those of many in the black Jewish community – and filled with memories of joy, but also pain and challenge.
Some people like Jews and some do not; but no thoughtful man can doubt the fact that they are beyond all question the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world.
During his half-hour on air, Resnick urged the show’s audience to stand tall and defend biblical values in American society.
This week, I acquired a splendid copy of Synagoga Judaica, a Latin book published in 1680, authored by Johannes Buxtorf (1564-1629). This book scrupulously documents the customs and society of German Jewry in the early modern period. Synagoga Judaica is probably the most famous book from a long forgotten genre of books written by Christian Hebraists who had […]
Many critics maintain this entire scene is anachronistic in that Lee incongruously imposed her own after-the-fact 1960s sensibilities onto her 1935 characters, who were overwhelmingly unaware of the Nazi persecution against the Jews.
It is always an emotional moment for me when I find a book whose owner was a Holocaust victim as it may serve as the only tangible memory of the deceased's existence.
The official opening of the Community Center was on Washington’s birthday, February 22, 1926, and it went on to become the meeting place for several Jewish organizations, including B’nai Brith, Hadassah, and the American Jewish Committee.
On the morning of the 19th of Kislev – December 1 – Orian drove Amiram to the yeshiva. When he got out of the car, Orian saw two men in civilian clothes moving toward him. "I was sure it was a terror attack," she recalls.
By Sandy Eller
“What made this successful is that it wasn’t just people calling from the outside to complain but also people on the inside working it out,” explained Rabbi Taragin.
For questions or comments – or to send pictures of your Judaica for future columns – email tsadik613@gmail.com.
Over the next few years, his interest and admiration for the Jewish people grew, and he published many publications in Japanese on Jews and Judaism.
By Sandy Eller
Rabbi Michoel Green, overseas director of Sharfman’s seminary, described a year in Israel for gap year students as an incomparable educational opportunity.
Later in life, Parks frequently and vociferously spoke out against skinheads – who typically manifest neo-Nazi beliefs regarding Jews – and the Ku Klux Klan, whom she blamed for “keeping the flames of prejudice flickering” and for much of the continuing racism in America.
As G-d-fearing Jews, we all have a connection to Hashem and yet we don’t see him, or hear him, nor can we feel him.
Because of Hungary's relative safety in the first five years of the war, numerous sefarim were amazingly published there even as the Holocaust ravished Jewish life elsewhere.
By Baruch Lytle
Initially, eVITALS did not plan to enter the consumer market so soon, but the advent of the Covid-19 crisis hastened Womba to provide what it called a level of comfort, convenience, and certainty to the general market as soon as possible.
For almost half a century, there has been unremitting pressure on Israel – including, sadly, from the United States under certain administrations – to return the Golan to Syria.
In light of your support for and participation in recent protests in New York City, the message to the public from New York City’s government appears to favor certain secular gatherings and disfavor religious gatherings.
While codifying and summarizing halachot for easy reference seems natural today, it was met with fierce criticism from some of the greatest gedolim centuries ago.
By Tuvia Ganz
For Jews, the timing of these protests was remarkable. They started on Shavuos, a day when we were k'ish echad b'lev achad.
By Rabbi Zvi Block and Rabbi Aaron Perry
The answer, my friends, lies in a Hebrew National hot dog commercial: "We answer to a Higher Authority!"
If there was a historical "Palestinian" nation, when did it begin, when did it cease to exist, and what caused its demise?
In it, the anonymous translator notes two objections voiced against publishing Jewish texts in Ladino...
If scare tactics will wake up more Jews who are still in denial, then it behooves us to use them.
The tale of Robinson’s integration of baseball in 1947 provided Jews with a reference for their own experience of post-WWII assimilation into American society.
He recorded the information he compiled regarding sefarim and their authors in Shem Hagedolim, which contains an alphabetical list of authors of sefarim followed by a list of known sefarim.
During a journey down the Nile River, Mendes created a makeshift American flag, flew it from a mast, and persuaded the crew of his vessel to salute it and promise to defend it.
He started publishing a set of Yerushalmi with his commentary and others in 1899, but found himself lacking funds to print the final volume.
By Sandy Eller
“In America, we need more prayer, not less,” said the president.
If they can sell clothing at Target, why can’t we sell clothing at our stores?
You have to assume everyone is at least two or three notches lower than he or she appears in the profile picture simply because many people will be two or three notches lower in real life.
According to Segal’s own account, Eban shamed the Israeli authorities by arguing that Israel, as the only democracy in the Middle East, dare not censor freedom of artistic expression.
A keen and careful observer, he noted in detail Yemenite Jewish life, including its educational system, manner of dress, minhagim, and unique pronunciation of Hebrew.
Called “Vayicha Sham Yisrael Neged Hahar – K’Ish Echad B’Lev Echad,” the event is dedicated to the memory of the Noviminsker Rebbe.
Although Kovner never came close to achieving the grandiose Nakam goal, he played a fundamental role in telling the story of Jewish rebellion and keeping alive the tales of Jewish heroism during the Shoah.
In his introduction, the author writes that he had no intention to publish the work, thinking it unworthy of publication.
I am not familiar with European examples of this menorah, but I guess it is possible for there to be some.
Anti-Semitism caused the first defection from the Impressionist movement when the deeply prejudiced Pierre-Auguste Renoir broke off all contact with Jews and ended his relationships with Jewish patrons.
The psak concerned a very wealthy elderly Jew who passed away childless, leaving his wife in need of yibum or chalitzah.
So much of it was reminiscent of a different time, when Jews were forced to be secretive in the practice of Torah and mitzvos.
Introverts are also suffering from lack of independence. It’s one thing to choose to be isolated; it’s another when it is forced upon you.
Children’s train rides and sea/river cruises have long been an important part of many Lag BaOmer celebrations, and one of the highlights for Jewish children in pre-World War II Warsaw was the annual Lag BaOmer train ride.
This sefer is notable for being the first published Hebrew book to include a portrait of its author.
Challenging medical orthodoxy, which held that only vaccines made of living viruses could provide effective, enduring immunity, Jonas Edward Salk (1914-95) produced a “killed-virus” vaccine that retained immunization capabilities. His discovery of the first poliomyelitis vaccine, which constitutes one of the greatest breakthroughs in immunology, rendered poliomyelitis (polio) a conquered disease and made Salk a […]
By Sandy Eller
It now provides twice weekly kosher food packages to the homebound and others in need of assistance, including recovering coronavirus victims.
October 30, 2026 
