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In 1616, Rabbi Joel Sirkes (popularly known as the Bach), a noted rabbinical scholar who authored several works on Jewish…
Almost 2,000 years ago our forebears were uprooted from Judea. Though dispersed and scattered throughout the world, They continuously and…
My grandparents left me Emunah Beyond their rheumy gazes And their nightmarish dreams Was a stillness —
Children born in the post-Holocaust era of the 1940s, 50s and 60s grew up knowing their parents had gone through…
Memories of a Third-Generation American Assimilated Jew and How She Found Her Way Back to the Land Her Soul Calls…
A selection of responsa from Rabbi Ephraim Oshry, the spiritual leader of the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust.
“There were always choices to make,” recalled the Austrian-born Jew Viktor Frankl after enduring three years in Auschwitz and concentration…
As flames enveloped the Warsaw Ghetto, a Polish resident of the city’s “Aryan” side, observing the incineration of his Jewish…
I begin, and end, in the same place: decimation.
In my Jewish Perspectives on the Experience of Suffering, I wrote that those who place truth over happiness often get…
By Avraham Rosen Digitally adjusted image of the calendar Rabbi Yehoshua Neuwirth, author of Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata, created when he…
