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Lecture at Young Israel Beth El of Borough Park featuring Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Brodt The event details are: Topic: “The Vilna Gaon in Fact and Fiction: Kol HaTor and Beyond.” Date: Wednesday, February 4....
View ArticleA Footnote on What the Chasam Sofer Did Not Say
A Footnote on What the Chasam Sofer Did Not Say By Shnayer Leiman The Problem. I’m the proud owner of a copy of Rabbi Shimon Finkelman’s Rav Pam: The Life and Ideals of Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov HaKohen Pam...
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Do you recall Hrubieszow? Hrubieszow, Home to an Active Early Nineteenth Century Hebrew Press[1] Marvin J. Heller A barely remembered Hebrew press, one credited with as many as forty books, although...
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Disenchantment with Zionism? Leon Roth and Yeshayahu Leibowitz on the Qibyā Raid Warren Zev Harvey[1] The infamous Qibyā reprisal raid (peʿulat tagmul), led by Major Ariel Sharon, later to become...
View ArticleBeyond the Masthead of the Beys Yaakov Journal, 1923-1980 – Part 2:...
Beyond the Masthead of the Beys Yaakov Journal, 1923-1980 – Part 2: ‘Abomination’ or Scandal? Mistranslation, Journalism, and the Halivni Controversy By Dan Rabinowitz and Menachem Butler In Part 1 of...
View ArticleS.Y. Agnon’s Forgotten Purim Parody
S.Y. Agnon’s Forgotten Purim Parody A humorous tale published by the teenage S.Y. Agnon, using the penname “Mazal Tov,” appeared in a Purim supplement to a Kraków newspaper in 1908 but was not later...
View ArticleBa-Yamim ha-Hem Ba-Zeman ha-Zeh: Jews Behind the Scenes in Iran’s First...
Ba-Yamim ha-Hem Ba-Zeman ha-Zeh: Jews Behind the Scenes in Iran’s First Political Upheaval? Aton M. Holzer The Persian Empire was founded through the conquests of Cyrus II following his rise to the...
View Article“I Do Not Understand a Single Word of What I Wrote in My Book”: Rav Kook,...
“‘I Do Not Understand a Single Word of What I Wrote in My Book’: Rav Kook, Saul Lieberman, and a Literary Mishlo’aḥ Manot Exchange” By Aviad Hacohen The festival of Purim, with its customs and...
View ArticlePurim in Tehran: The Symbolic Devaluation of the Ahrimanic Republic
Purim in Tehran: The Symbolic Devaluation of the Ahrimanic Republic By Dan D.Y. Shapira Dan (or, Dan D.Y.) Shapira is an Orientalist and grows more than fifty trees on the edge of the Judaean Desert....
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