For the Record

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Oy Vey Iz Mir

The reality of Polish life in the countryside, outside the cocoon of sheltered yeshivah life

For the Record

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

To Greet or Not to Greet

Conspicuously absent was an emerging rabbinical leader of the Old Yishuv, Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld

Magazine Feature

Tuesday, February 08, 2022

A Kingdom Rebuilt: How Rav Aharon Rokeach brought postwar Belz back to life

How Rav Aharon Rokeach brought postwar Belz back to life

For the Record

Tuesday, February 08, 2022

The Clout of the Ketzos

“Rabbi, this is likely the last Ketzos that will ever be sold in America!”

For the Record

Tuesday, February 01, 2022

Building Brisk

From this cadre of talmidei chachamim emerged an entire generation of roshei yeshivah and marbitzei Torah

For the Record

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Heckler in the Heights

The prime minister seemed unfazed. “It’s all right. I can assure you that we have people like this with us [in Israel] as well.”

For the Record

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

A Globetrotting Gadol

In an age of migration, Rav Shlomo Nosson Kotler (1856–1945) seemed to have been everywhere

For the Record

Tuesday, January 04, 2022

The Humble Giant of Horodna

Rav Nochumke emerged as a gabbai tzedakah par excellence, devoting his energies to caring for other

For the Record

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Soccer vs. Shabbos

“Thousands of speeches and nationalist reproofs could not do as much as one [soccer] game to bring our youngsters back toward Jewishness”

For the Record

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Home at Last

Clutching the casket’s opening, he declared, “Our great rav the Chida, I’m incapable of this task, please arrange it on your own!”

For the Record

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Reunited at Last

Rav Dovid had the bearing of an old-school baal mussar and a master educator