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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

The Voice of the Maggid

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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Rav Isser Zalman’s Tree of Life

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

A Sanhedrin in the City of Lights

In 1806 Napoleon called for an assembly of Jewish leaders to form what he referred to as a “Sanhedrin”

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Tuesday, November 07, 2023

Between the Pale and St. Petersburg

The generous Gunzburgs supported a wide array of Jewish institutions, religious, social, and educational organizations

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Framed in Plotzk

“Yet who mourns the death of the chassidic rabbi of Plotzk? Who but a few fellow Jews even took notice of it?”

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

They Called Him Reb Shmuel

His experiences on this journey so impressed him that he committed himself to religious observance

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Shas and Poskim

Under Rav Ovadiah’s spiritual guidance, the political trajectory of Shas saw a remarkable ascent

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Far Away in Far Rockaway

Mesivta Rav Chaim Berlin was founded in the early ’30s by the rising star in the yeshivah world, Rav Yitzchok Hutner

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

At the Time of Ne’ilah

He began humming Kol Nidrei, and suddenly Purim had been transformed into Yom Hakippurim.…

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Hammerin’ Hank and Judgment Day

Ultimately the Greenberg Rosh Hashanah story reflects the tragic course of American Jewish assimilation

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Tuesday, September 05, 2023

The Chofetz Chaim Tries to Move to Eretz Yisrael

Rav Sonnenfeld reassured me, “To have the Chofetz Chaim come to Eretz Yisrael, I would sign on Hoshana Rabbah with both hands”