History
Though James G. McDonald strove to save German Jews from the Nazi menace and contributed significantly to laying the groundwork…
American Orthodoxy has no sense of history. Records are not kept; documents go astray; historic figures who make significant contributions…
View of the reconstructed Kfar Etzion Courtesy of the Kfar Etzion Archives During the months bridging the vote on the…
Personal memories of landmark historical moments. Map of Gush Etzion, 1947: Some twenty kilometers from Jerusalem, nestled between Bethlehem and…
The following is a meager attempt to record the awesome occurrences that both my colleagues in Hatzalah–the emergency Jewish volunteer…
The harsh, rocky desolate terrain of southern Colorado is an unlikely site for settlement of Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jews. Yet, in…
Translated and Adapted from the Hebrew by Yocheved Lavon Ruins of the Hurva Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem,…
Please follow the link below to read the article: http://www.ou.org/pdf/ja/5771/fall71/46-49.pdf
MISCONCEPTION:1 In 1925, in Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook’s invocation for the inauguration of the Hebrew University, he applied the…
If keeping mitzvot in a small Jewish community is a challenge today, imagine how much more of a struggle…
“Like sheep to the slaughter.” To many Jews, the Holocaust represents our shameful, oppressed past. “Why should we teach our…
