History
When I was growing up, small farms still existed in Boro Park. I remember there were goats and chickens. It…
When my parents, Peretz and Annie Scheinerman, lived in Washington, DC [in the early part of the twentieth century], you…
It’s a fallacy to say that Orthodox Judaism in America existed only from the 1940s onward. My grandchildren mark six…
Many of the books on the history of American Orthodoxy include the names Bruder, Weberman, Fensterheim and Jacobs. These families…
The story is told of a visitor to the Netherlands who was given a lengthy tour of that nation’s extensive…
My great-grandfather, Henry P. (Tzvi Pinchas) Cohn, was a Kohen. He left Germany because they had strict laws against Jews…
My wife’s paternal grandparents, Chaim and Sora Feiga Siegel, moved to Baltimore in 1900. The couple named their second American-born…
Imagine an America in which all stores are closed on Sundays, few packaged foods bear kosher certification and the vast…
Expert collector Rabbi Eliezer Katzman, a consultant and appraiser of Judaica and Hebrew books for Kestenbaum & Company, has also…
By Eli Genauer It all began with one book. A Gemara actually—a 1735 edition of Tractate Moed Katan, a gift…
Misconception: Mordechai and Esther, the Purim heroes, were uncle and niece.1 Fact: According to Megillat Esther, Mordechai and Esther were…
