A World War II Liberator’s Letter to his Hometown Rabbi
…was a member of the heroic cohort which journalist Tom Brokaw reverently labeled as “The Greatest Generation”. On several occasions, I had the opportunity to hear him speak about some…
Jewish Communal Workers, Preacher’s Kid Syndrome, and Sefer Shmuel
…to accuse parents of failing to properly raise their children. If we agree not to automatically label friends and neighbors as bad parents based on how their child(ren) turned out,…
Saul Lieberman and his Ketubah, Driving on Shabbat, an Unusual Marriage Practice, Girls born on Friday, and More
…the head of Eretz Hemdah, also replied, and he followed the approach already approved by R. Yisraeli. If the bus is clearly labeled as a ‘Shabbat bus,’ is announced as…
Le-Tacen Olam (לתכן עולם): Establishing the Correct Text in Aleinu
…erroneously printed לתקן. [10] See their Fragments from the Cairo Genizah in the Freer Collection, New York: The MacMillan Company, 1927, plate XLIII (opposite p. 194). The fragment is labeled…
Lekah Tov – What’s in a Name?
…is a subject of considerable interest, varying as it does from the more common manner of labelling comparable works. Book titles generally reflect a book’s subject matter. In contrast, however,…
Birds’ Heads, Romaine Lettuce, and the Art of Reading a Haggadah
…much scholarship. Medieval Jewish and Christian artists often employed similar pictorial conventions; when similarities are observed, scholars have typically identified the Christian source, labeled the Jewish version as dependent, and…
