Throughout the mid-19th century, one figure dominated the religious life of Jews in Great Britain, Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler (1803-18...

In R. Haim Jos. David Azulay 's travelog מעגל טוב there is an interesting passage (one of many) which records events that took place on...

at What's Bothering Artscroll?

Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 61.24 צריך לקרות קריאת שמע בטעמים כמו שהם בתורה. הגה: אבל לא נהגו כן במדינות אלו, ומ"מ יד המדקדקים מחמירים ב...

In this comment thread ( link ) commenter SB critiques the forthcoming YU-OU Day of Peshat conference ( see here * - I think I'll be the...

It isn't all that often that one sees this. Have a look at the spelling of the word לילית in the following from the book The present s...

Here's a slightly bizarre poem about the Shapira strips affair , which appeared in Punch (London, England), Saturday, September 08, 188...

I posted a comment in the Lieberman post directly below this, and I liked the way I brought out my point, so it's becoming its own post...

Saul Lieberman,"Corrections of the Soferim," in Hellenism in Jewish Palestine , pg 33-34 1994 edition: "Jacob Reifmann collec...

An Italian* Jewish wedding custom was to compose poetry in honor of the bride and groom. The poems would be distributed to the guests and re...

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Sometimes when I come across something particularly interesting, I jot a note down for myself. Here's something I found, but I don't...

The whole Weinberg-Atlas correspondence thing has renewed itself, in a discussion here about this symposium. For the unfamiliar, see my ...

Ari has an excellent post about how 18th century Jewish women knew what time to light the Shabbat candles. "In today’s age we are extr...

Does anyone remember the children's periodical Olomeinu - Our World , published by Torah Umesorah? Perhaps you remember Mendel the Mouse...

The wise Iyov has tagged me . Here's what I am assigned to do: Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!) Find...

This excerpt is from the introduction (pg. 7) of R. Hayyim Heller's essay על התרגום הירושלמי לתורה . The purpose is to explain ways in w...

Prof. David Halivni has won the Israel Prize for research into the Talmud for 2008, the Education Ministry announced Tuesday. Halivni has wr...

Some of the greatest feats in printing history were achieved with the polyglot Bibles of the 16th and 17th century. The last (but most accu...

As a child I enjoyed doing cryptogram puzzles. Here's an interesting excerpt from Solomon Maimon's (1754-1800) autobiography 1 : I...