Marc B. Shapiro: Obituary for Prof. Mordechai Breuer zt”l
…has a descendant, R. Baruch Horovitz, who runs the fairly haredi Dvar Yerushalayim Yeshiva. In fact, when Rabbi Horovitz reprinted the Matteh Levi in 1979, he received a haskamah from…
The Story of the Publisher of the Forged Yerushalmi Kodshim
…R. Baruch Oberlander has written a series of articles, which appeared in Or Yisrael, further illuminating this episode. Now, the great-grandson of the publisher (Ya’akov Weider who was killed in…
The Recently Published Photographs of Rav Yisrael Salanter: Real or Imaginary?
…Brak, 2014). [2] Many other witnesses could have been adduced. See, for example, R. Baruch Epstein, מקור ברוך (Vilna, 1928), vol. 4, pp. 1800-1804, for a vivid account of a…
Final Response
…heretic Baruch Spinoza.” I say this is comical since Grossman doesn’t have a clue as to what is going on here. The only way I can explain this is that…
Review of Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture by Shaye J.D. Cohen
…late-comers are allowed to join the party: the Fourth Book of Ezra and the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch, two works lamenting the destruction of the temple, and Greek synagogal prayers,…
What Was Bothering the Censor?
…you know the Medrash about HaKadosh Baruch Hu looking into the Torah for instructions for creating the world, “like an architect consults a plan? That seemed simple enough. The Christian…
