For the Record

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

From Oppression to Opportunity

The Rebbe Rayatz shared ideas for making order out of chaos on American shores  

For the Record

Tuesday, July 09, 2024

From Assimilation to Assassination

Walther Rathenau grew up with aspirations of assimilation for German Jewry

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Tuesday, July 02, 2024

Remembering the Rebbes of Radzymin

Rav Yaakov Aryeh Guterman of Radzymin (1792–1874) was a student of chassidic masters

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Redeeming the Rishonim

Despite the fact that such personalities themselves are often forgotten, their legacies are often exceptional and distinct

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Tuesday, June 18, 2024

The Great Miscommunicator

Elie Wiesel implored the president not to go to Bitburg: “That place is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS”

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Sunday, June 09, 2024

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

In 1924, three Torah luminaries journeyed to the US to secure financial aid for Torah centers ravaged by the First World War

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Tuesday, June 04, 2024

Piety in Pittsburgh

Rabbi Sivitz was considered one of the leading Russian rabbanim in America

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Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Martyrs of Maalot

22 young teenagers from Tzfas who were martyred al Kiddush Hashem in one of the worst massacres in Israeli history, exactly 50 years ago

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Tuesday, May 21, 2024

When the Sun Set

There was a man who sang and who learned and who taught

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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Chacham of Germany

Chacham Bernays’s efforts in education targeted both the youth and adults of Hamburg. Balancing a fine line between the older traditionalists and the reformers

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Tuesday, May 07, 2024

Leadership in Turbulent Times

The deepening poverty confronting the Jewish People inevitably leads to a weakening of religious observance