Following the fall of the Iron Curtain, a massive number of Russian Jews, largely uneducated in Jewish tradition, immigrated to Eretz Yisrael. With loving concern,
The heiligeh Rebbe Dovid of Dinov was a brilliant scholar, charismatic darshan and miracle worker. The son of Reb Zvi Elimelech, the Bnei Yisaschar, he
Educated in Frankfurt am Main and in the great yeshivas of Lithuania, Rav Shimon Schwab was a talmid chacham and traditionalist interpreter of the path
A devoted zoo keeper, in a small town, faced a major challenge: the gorilla had died suddenly, leaving them without one of their most exciting
The previous Rebbe of Lubavitch, Reb Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn once delivered a mind-blowing maamar—complicated and profound, clarifying each person’s experience of that moment in history.
Mid-nineteenth century Eastern European Jewry saw the founding of the mussar movement. This represented a paradigm shift in which attention and education turned to emphasize
Reb Chaim Elazar Spira, the Munkatcher Rebbe, was a tzadik and gaon of unusual piety known after his multi-volume Minchas Elazar. An expression of his
A revolutionary educator and builder of Torah, the famed Alter of Slabodka, Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel, zt’l, reoriented the focus of avodas Hashem on gadlus
Throughout the early 20th century, Jews suffered brutal religious persecution at the hands of the evil Soviet regime. Religious life was forced underground, where a
Rav Aharon Kotler, zt’l, the renowned ga’on and rosh yeshiva, was the founder of Beis Medrash Govoha in Lakewood. One of Gedolei haDor, Reb Aharon
Rav Zalman Sender Shapira, zt”l was a towering rabbinic figure in Lithuania at the turn of the 20th Century, a genius in Torah renowned for
Rav Yisroel Belsky, z”l, rosh yeshiva of Torah Vodaath, was a leading halachic authority and hands-on posek, a talented musician, well versed in “secular” knowledge,
