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Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Only the secret kabbalists of Tel Aviv and a handful of tzaddikim of the generation knew that behind the ever-present s ...

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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Royal Patriarch

He was the longest-serving rav in modern times, became the mechutan of dozens of chassidic giants, and had close to 1,500 progeny — landing him the title “mesader kiddushin of the ...

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

I Had a Friend Named Mottele

The surprising discovery of 92-year-old Yaakov Koppel Mendelovitz, the childhood friend of the elderly Vizhnitz-Monsey Rebbe and ...

Magazine Feature

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Intersecting Lives of Yakob and Yom Tov

“I am a Jew, and it is forbidden for me to marry a Gentile. I thank you for your good intentions, but it is impossible for me to fulfill your request.”

Wednesday, August 01, 2012

The Belzer Rebbe’s Chandelier Soldier

When the Rebbe, Reb Aharon of Belz, called out, during World War II, “Moishele, do something!” Moshe Schlifstein did it. ...

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