Rebbe Yisrael Alter—the Beis Yisroel of Gur, zt”l—was fond of repeating a maaseh (story) about his great-grandfather, Reb Yitzchok Meir, the Chiddushei Harim: One day,
Rav Daniel Movshovitz, HY”D, was the menahel of the Talmud Torah of Kelm. He was an embodiment of mussar, refinement, greatness in Torah, faith, straightforward
Rav Yehoshua Yogel, zt”l, was born in Lodz, Poland, and was a student of the famed Lithuanian yeshiva in Kletzk, where he studied with the
By Rabbi Judah Mischel In the second half of the 20th century, Rav Eliyahu Roth, zt”l, was one of the great talmidei chachamim and holy
Rav Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld, zt”l, the righteous “Guardian of Jerusalem”, was the revered leader of the Yishuv haYashan. One of the founders of the Eidah
Chacham Yosef Chaim of Baghdad was the great posek, Kabbalist and community leader of Sefardic Jewry at the turn of the 19th Century. He wrote
Rav Shimshon Pincus, zt”l, once related an extraordinary encounter he had with a granddaughter of the holy Chafetz Chaim, zt”l. She was already an elderly
Although Menachem Mendel Beilis came from a chasidishe family, he was “indifferent” to religion and assimilated—working at a brick factory, seven days a week in
The heilige Ribnitzer Rebbe, Reb Chaim Zanvil Abramowitz, zt”l, was an extraordinary tzaddik and a legendary baal avodah, whose sacrifice for Yiddishkeit and holiness suffused
In the height of the High Holiday celebrations in autumn of 1978, the Lubavitcher Rebbe suffered a heart attack. Dr. Ira Weiss of Chicago, a
Rav Yisroel Yitzchak haLevi Reisman, zt”l, was a Lelover chasid, born in the Old City of Yerushalayim. A trusted gabbai tzedaka, he served Hashem with
Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Shurkin—a long-time maggid shiur at Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin—learned in the yeshiva of Radin for 15 years and had a close relationship
