Rabbi Shlomo Riskin I'm waiting for the outcry that will never come. For him to be ostracized and for him to lose his Rabbinical license...

Forst's Illustrated Haggadah , 1958 Siegmunt Forst - brother of Reb Yonah Forst - speaks about his post-War encounter with Reb Michoel...

אין בור ירא חטא ולא עם הארץ חסיד; they say in the name of RMBW, that a boor cannot be a G-d fearing Jew, which is simple, since he never lea...

Speak to your average Litvak , even the upper crust guys, listen to him praise his teachers and the ones he admires, and you'll realize ...

It seems like the chassidim were to blame for all the death that was happening in 1771 in Vohlin , Valachia and Podolia . Which is why - ...

Rav Isser Yehuda Unterman, (L) with HaRav Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik Much has been said about the recent Mishpacha article about the Rav...

......בכדי לא להוסיף חיות The 6th and 7th Lubavitcher Rabbeyim playing chess. Lav Davka it was nitt el. "מה שנוהגים לא ללמוד בניתל, שמע...

M0she Sharett - guest speaker at the KG - in 1948 Yeshivas Chevron, Yom Sheni leseder "Vehoyo ki Yeviacho," 4th Jan, 1954 Dear Pa...

R Yisroel Sholom Yosef Friedman passed away yesterday, on his 95th birthday, that is. [My grandmother died on her 86th birthday, not that y...

It's been a while since we discussed Munkacs . We had been talking about Reb Burechel's abdication of the throne and got sidetracke...

Yom Sheni Lesder Vayechi 5714 - 15th Dec '53 My dear Parents I havn't received a letter from you............. I am carrying on lea...

Photos from Here What say you; Is it: "Creative?" Bizayon haMitzvah? Just cute? neither one? They do own a fish store. It...

London's East End at the turn of the 20th century Sent by Reader "Eli R." "Decorum was not a feature of synagogue worship...

You guys living in Monsey, New Hempstead, New Square, Chestnut Ridge, Wesley Hills; help me out here. Help all of us out. What's going o...

(L-R) Reb Chaim Shlomo Leibovitz and Reb Shmaryahu Yosef Chaim Kanievski You might say I'm still reeling from all the flak I got over th...

לכבוד ידידי ר' הירשל שיחי-ה עס איז שוין חנוכה. די לעכטלעך האט מען שוין אנגעצונדן, אביסעל דריידל געשפילט, געגעסן א פאר לאטקעליך און די...

(No! it's not the same picture as the previous one) So it's official. I'm now an "anti-Semite" because I look at a man...

L-R Reb Shmuel Markovits and Reb Osher Deutsch of Ponovizher Yeshivah in Bene Beraq at a Chanukah Mesibah/"Chagigah" tonight....

R-L: Reb Berel Povarski, Reb Yoel Kahan, Reb Chaim Peretz Berman (SIL of RBP and Eynikel of the Steipler. His father Reb Shlomo Berman was a...