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Twenty Years Later—Remembering the Uprooting of Gush Katif 

In the summer of 2005, the Israeli government evicted close to 10,000 Israelis from their homes in Gush Katif, and…

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Debbie’s Story

Debbie Rosen was a resident of Gush Katif for more than twenty years. A photographer, she worked as the spokesperson…

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From Gush Katif to the Rebuilt Ganei Tal 

Moti, and Hana lived in Gush Katif. After the expulsion, with perseverance and resolve, they rebuilt their lives—more than once.

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Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate 

Since the 2024 pogrom in Amsterdam cast a grim shadow over the Dutch city’s reputation, this book serves as a…

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Keeper of the Tefillin

I marveled at the timelessness of our mesorah. Here I was, employing twenty-first-century technology to preserve nineteenth-century tefillin—the same ones…

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The Great Moror Merchant

This charming story, based on true events, appeared in the March-April 1963 issue of Jewish Life, the precursor to Jewish…

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Rakafot Aharon: Timeless Halakhah and Contemporary History (4 vols.)

These are among the most complex questions in modern times, and Rabbi Rakeffet explores and explains them with remarkable clarity. 

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Who Will Comfort Us Now?

Rav Nachman Bulman, zt”l, taught and inspired thousands of individuals, but I have the privilege of being able to say,…

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A Time of Repentance

An excerpt from Bein Sheishes Le’Asor by Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe; translation by Rabbi Eliyahu Krakowski.

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The Shochet (Vol. 1): A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea

The same-but-different-ness of various historical periods is always a point of surprise. While circumstances change, human nature and emotion often…

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Reviews in Brief – Winter 2024

Medinah, Halachah VeKavanot HaTorah; Living in the Land: Firsthand accounts from Bnei Torah and their families; Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Religious…

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