Part 2 (Continued from last week) The period of Joshua and the conquest covers roughly the Late Bronze Age, which spanned from about 1200 BC

Part 2(Continued from last week) Working in my father’s warehouse presented another instance of proving my laziness. The business sold wholesale hides and skins (cow

Part 3 (Continued from last week) But again, my laziness reared its head and I kept thinking about that problem. I said to myself, I

Pronouncing the “Cholam” Vowel Among Ashkenazi Jews there used to be four different ways of pronouncing the cholam vowel. Two of the four have survived

Part III As mentioned previously, the purpose of this article is not to go into the underlying reasons of a minhag, but to compare one

Part 2 (Continued from last week) While many of the designs were based on archeological findings of the day, and had not appeared on any

The information in this article is taken, with permission of the book’s author, from “Shorshei Minhag Ashkenaz” by Rabbi Binyomin Shlomo Hamburger. The reader should

Part 12 (Continued from last week) German historical research since the 1960s has shown sufficiently that Hitler’s rise to power and success was no accident,

Part 10 (Continued from last week) Without a major change in the commercial politics, attacked from the right and the left, the Weimar Republic could

Part 9 (Continued from last week) Although after the failure of the “Putsch,” in 1923, the NSDAP was forced to close, Hitler was able to

Part 8 (Continued from last week) In the 10 years from 1914 to 1924 the world had sunk into ruins for the Germans. The powers

(Continued from last week) Part 7 At the same time when the National Assembly in Weimar was discussing how to bring together all the parties