I'd never seen a portrait of R. Zvi Hirsch Chajes other than the one in the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia: Here's another (or, perhaps, ...

From here . By the way, to all those who are concerned - I'm fine, I've just been too busy to really blog. Thanks for asking. Hopefu...

I once posted about the excellent JTS Digital site, and the wedding poem in honor of R. Moshe Chaim Luzzatto that I found there ( see here ...

Here's an interesting excerpt from the Artscroll biography of R. Yaakov Kamenecki, Reb Yaakov: The Life and Times of HaGaon Rabbi Yaakov...

I've always been interested in seeing Hebrew as written by non-Jews. More on that another time. Here's an interesting excerpt from a...

Haven't done one of these in a while. Sharp (?) comment: David Zevi Hoffman demolished it, Modern literary approaches offer a unity, Yo...

Ishim ve-shitos notes that a yeshiva mailed a photograph of the Chofetz Chaim that was visited by the Photoshop Fairy: Original: Doctored:...

Holy Hyrax called my attention to the 5th annual Ariel Avrech z"l Yahrzeit Lecture at the Young Israel of Century City ( listen ). T...

I doubt it. In the comments in the Rema post below the issue of Karaism and masoretes was raised, so I thought it's an opportune moment ...

There's an interesting bit in C.D. Ginsburg's I ntroduction to the Massoretico-Critical Bible (pp. 241-242): As you can see, he ca...

Excerpt from a 1646 Treatise Concerning Tongues Appertaining to Learning: viz. The Hebrew, Greeke, Latine, Chaldead, Syrian, and Arabian

Here's a really interesting cartoon. It depicts Solomon Schechter grinding up Lower East Side immigrant boys (with the help of Jacob Sch...

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From the 11/19/39 Palestine Post : (See related .)

Continuing my series of posts where I present images of people-you-know-but-I-think-are-little-seen -- This portrait of R. Moses Sofer ...

Tel Aviv University is now hosting a digital newspaper project ( link ), and there's a very promising beginning. Although some of the ne...

This is a Samaritan alphabet abecedary from a medieval Jewish manuscript called Sha'ar Ha-razim , written in the late 1460s. The reading...

Sometimes a rabbinic derashah allows the letters ח and ה interchange with one another. They're so close in sound (and appearance) tha...

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