For the Record

Sunday, September 29, 2024

The Chasam Sofer Centennial Cancellation

That the Chasam Sofer would have such a proliferation of eineklach wasn’t so obvious at the outset of his storied life

For the Record

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

The Myth of the Misplaced Name

Few threads are as colorful as the story of immigrants’ names being changed at Ellis Island

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Tuesday, September 17, 2024

The Last Leader

Rav Chanoch Henoch Eiges, immortalized as the Marcheshes

For the Record

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Chief Contender

Warsaw’s Okopowa Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in the world

For the Record

Tuesday, September 03, 2024

Mussolini’s Mediterranean Menace

A two-year campaign by the Axis powers to bring the war directly to Mandatory Palestine

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Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Satmar on the way to Eretz Yisrael

For more than seven decades, Rav Yoel (Yoelish) Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rav, built and rebuilt again and again

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Tuesday, August 20, 2024

From Home of the Blues to Land of the Jews

“I would not exchange these seven weeks [learning in Chevron] for a lifetime of the wealthiest American millionaire”

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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Summers at Tannersville

The Jewish response was simple: We’ll make our own hotels for Jewish vacationers

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Tuesday, August 06, 2024

Mossad’s Mashal Misstep

Targeted killings are as old as the Bible

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Setting the Record Straight

Gather your wits (and some back issues of Mishpacha), and we’ll see how much you’ve absorbed on this journey through Jewish history

For the Record

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Hail to the Chief Rabbi

Rav Yitzchak Isaac HaLevi Herzog: chief rabbi of Eretz Yisrael under the British Mandate, and first chief rabbi of the State of Israel