Rachel Olivetti of Pesaro, Italy, was the wife of Judah Montefiore. She embroidered a Torah ark curtain and donated it to a synagogue in Pesaro in 1620.
Alfred Kahn’s grand classical revival synagogue and its location on Detroit’s Woodward Avenue attracted many new members to Temple Beth El. The congregation soon outgrew the building, and in 1922 it…
When Arnold Newman was asked by Newsweek magazine to photograph industrialist Alfred Krupp, he initially refused. He was repelled by the idea of photographing a man who had been prosecuted as a war…
502. Since our eyes have seen the great neglect of Torah among schoolchildren, caused by [not] printing of folios of the Gemara [with Rashi’s commentary], because the…