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Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Mama Rochel Cries for Boro Park

Boro Park is, indeed, as fine a representation of an American-Jewish community as you can find on these shores

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Thursday, October 06, 2022

Horror on the Hudson

“I have already been in this town for 24 hours and still cannot gather my strength to write my report”

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Wednesday, September 28, 2022

An Anthem for the Ages

His new “Proik Yas Anach” soon emerged as the theme song of an eternal people facing challenging circumstances

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Mounting Troubles on Temple Mount

While Jews were banned from the Temple Mount for centuries, there are both legends and credible accounts of those who defied the rule

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Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Canceling the Calendar

In the 1920s, a novel proposal known as the International Fixed Calendar threatened to upend Jewish tradition

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Tuesday, September 06, 2022

Not Mir-ly Another Yeshivah

Yeshivah students across Israel knew that Rav Leizer Yudel had a “weakness” for bnei Torah

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

The Giant from Grodno

The rabbinical career of Rav Margolios (1847–1935) spanned more than six decades and traversed the fault lines of Jewish communal life on both sides of the Atlantic

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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

The Last Wanderings of the Netziv

Rav Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin (1816–1893) would forever be remembered to posterity as the Netziv of Volozhin

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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Top-Tier Rabbinic Trainin

Rabbi Trainin was one of the few known to have received semichah from the Ohr Sameiach

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Tuesday, August 09, 2022

From Vilna to Vicksburg

Unlikely figures to play important roles in the American Civil War

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Tuesday, August 02, 2022

Hail to the Rav

Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s candidacy served as a catalyst for his only visit to the Holy Land