“On the Passover of 1917, the Turkish rulers of the country ordered the residents of Tel-Aviv to evacuate the city. Almost 8,000 people were listed for expulsion. A sense of dispossession accompanied the eviction notice. The expulsion was in effect exile from the homeland. Anxiety-ridden settlers prepared to leave their homes, although not from Egypt [...]
Hebrewbooks has posted some more books to their website. See some titles pointed out at Ishim ve-Shitot. After a quick look over the list I have a few more books to add. The first is the important work by the Egyptian rabbi Raphael Aharon ben Shimon, Nahar Mitzrayim (part one, two) about the customs and [...]
The O-U won’t give peanut oil a hecksher for Passover anymore although at one point they did, (see here) but these advertisements from Panim el Panim tell a different story.
One of Rav Soloveitchik’s most influential works, The Lonely Man of Faith, was translated into Hebrew under the title איש האמונה. See here for a bibliography of Rav Soloveitchik’s writings. In the April 5, 1968, edition of the defunct Israeli religious magazine פנים אל פנים, there is a news item about Rav Soloveitchik’s apparent displeasure [...]
As a sort of continuation to this previous post, I want to call attention to Gil Student’s very honest post on the question of the ordination of women and Orthodoxy. I describe this post as being honest because I think that Gil admits, both directly and indirectly, that this is not a purely formalistic halakhic [...]
In many synagogues, schools, etc., there are boxes for placing material with God’s name (שמות) that instead of being thrown out is placed in a genizah. Have you ever wondered where they went? An Israeli columnist (here-in Hebrew) followed the genizah trail and was quit appalled by what he found. Nachum Pinchuk went to a [...]
I stumbled upon an excellent collection of digitized German-language books on Jewish Studies from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Judaica Collection of the University Library of Frankfurt am Main has a very large number of important works available for viewing online or for download in PDF format. While most of them are in [...]
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