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I had recently published my work Ḥeker davar, and for other reasons, I was compelled to seek out the city of my birth, Vilna, and…
Istanbul has been blessed with a unique geography. It is for this reason that a neighborhood appearing no larger than a pin on the map will reveal itself as a sprawling snarl of intricate lanes and…
They [the hasidim] study Kabbalah and Talmud diligently and successfully, and consequently they have among them excellent Talmud scholars. They also comprise three groups, each of them under one chief…
The situation of Jews in the Soviet Union may well be the greatest of all the great wonders of the world. The history of Jews in tsarist Russia has been centuries of darkness…
The theater troupe at the Saidye Bronfman Centre decided to practice a bit of outreach to the city’s French Canadian majority by staging a play by the Québécois dramatist Michel Tremblay. It wouldn’t…