Jews, Drinking & Kiddush Clubs
…R. Y. Goldhaver, Minhagei ha-Kehilot, Jerusalem, 2005, vol. 1, 200-208. R. Goldhaver’s work includes notes by the prolific and encyclopedic R. Shmuel Ashkenazi. On this topic of taking a break…
Review of Jay R. Berkovitz’s The Pinkas of Metz
…(pp. 30-31) Sources for the Law What do we Know about the Jewish Community of Metz at the time? Berkowitz writes: Metz was the western-most outpost of Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazic Jewry…
A Conversation With Professor Marcin Wodziński on Hasidism
…other courts in other towns, and his youngest son, Rav Shmuel, remained in Lubavitch. This was only slowly regained by his grandson, Rav Shalom Dovber, but his was a time…
Fixing a Typesetting Error in Order to Understand The View of the Mishnah Berurah on Women Wearing Tefillin
…exempt from all mitzvot, including tefillin, and he lacks the basic credibility that even a Jewish woman has to label food items as prohibited or permissible, so two of the three…
Finders Keepers? The Itinerant History of Strashun Library of Vilna, Pt I
…the JNUL, Scholem colluded with a Jewish American serviceman to smuggle the works out of Offenbach. Scholem placed the collection into five boxes but did not label their contents and…
The Custom of Azharot on Shavous
…mind and that his merits should help us. However R. Shmuel Ashkenazi has already pointed out based on the Sefer Tachmoni that this story is not true and instead, R….
