Category: Great Personalities of Jewish History
GEORGE T. NAGEL INTERVIEW (1977)
This remarkable interview is the only known film footage of George T. Nagel, recorded in... Read More
A HAREDI ATTACK ON RABBI JOSEPH BER SOLOVEITCHIK
A BATTLE OVER THE BRISKER LEGACY FROM 1984 This article was co-authored by Rabbi Pini... Read More
RARE FOOTAGE OF THE CHOFETZ CHAIM
If you are not part of the closed world of ultra-Orthodox, or haredi, Jewry, or... Read More
HE DREAMED OF HEGEMONY OVER TEMPLE MOUNT – IN 1836!
In one of the many blueprints for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians,... Read More
THE HERO WHO FOUGHT FOR SOVIET JEWRY
Yesterday, we lost a genuine Jewish hero. Jacob Birnbaum, who passed away at the age... Read More
RABBI MORDECHAI ELEFANT’S MEMOIRS
"AN ELEPHANT NEVER FORGETS" Rabbi Mordechai Elefant (1930-2009) was one of the most colorful rabbinic... Read More
“MEGILLAT SEFER” TRANSLATION: A REVIEW
One of the most prolific rabbinic authors of the eighteenth-century, who saw many of his... Read More
THE SPLIT IN SLABODKA
In the mid-1920s the rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Slabodka, R. Moshe Mordechai Epstein (1866-1934;... Read More