A friend wanted to see the actual writ of excommunication against Rabbi Nathan Adler of Frankfurt. Here it is. ...

Here's a notice about Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz's visit to Syracuse in July 1929, with his son-in-law R. Reuven Grozovski. ...

I mocked up this whimsical portrait of Rabbi Moses Hayyim Luzzatto to hang up in your Sukkah. Sadly, no true portrait of this personality ex...

See  Part I .* Here's a beautiful depiction of prayer for the sick, captioned by Psalm 34:23, and one imagines, of contemporary Itali...

http://www.vosizneias.com/140354/2013/09/02/2219-london-britains-new-chief-rabbi-sworn-in-replacing-long-serving-sacks/ Mazal Tov, Rabbi M...

This is an incredibly interesting and poignant audio piece by Frimet Goldberger about the thirst for education among Chasidim, and how they...

I'll be back. But I'm taking a break from my break to post this incredible photo (I'd never seen it) of R. Elia Guttmacher . Ter...

This is a map of the houses of worship and some other principle buildings in New York. #12 is "Jew's Synagogue." It refers to ...

Here's an interesting letter printed in the Beauties of the Evangelical Magazine . The writer, "Erastus," says that he engage...

This ad in the Jewish Messenger from 1864 advertises a portrait of Rabbi Akiva Eger and set of Pahad Yitzhak for sale.

Recently I was in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and I saw this portrait of Napoleon. Evidently, he enjoyed pageantry and symbolism. ...

Suppose you were trying to establish contact with a newly discovered colony of Jews deep in China, close to Tibet, in 1839. How would you e...

Rabbi Eliezer Chaim Rabinowitz , (1845-1916) of Jampol, progenitor of the Skolye Hasidic dynasty, and known as the 'first Hasidic rebb...

I think this is highly amusing.  First, the background: Plica polonica (Polish plait) was a strange hair disease that was common well ...

According to the Jewish Messenger , 299,999. Ha ha.

This page is an account of one English visitor to a synagogue in 1721. As you can see, he was bewildered by  the men keeping their hats on,...

Sounds sensationalist, but apparently not. I wrote about Baratier before, here .

This is the Application for Denizenship (I made that title up) to Queen Anne  of Great Britain for Nathan Simpson and Samuel Levy, on beha...

Here's some pages out of a most interesting Haggadah, or perhaps parts of a Passover program, produced for Jewish inmates at the federal...

Here's something interesting. An article - actually, compiled from a written correspondence - in English by the ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II . T...