Leifheit bat Asher owned a copy of the oldest printed Jewish prayer book. Was she also called to the Torah?
Border smuggling, dancing, and prayer – What did Breslov Hasidim do when war made their annual trip to Uman a true matter of life and death?
About a year after the renowned scholar’s Talmud set finally found its way home, his Mishna has too…
After decades in ruins, Nikos Stavroulakis set out to revitalize Jewish life on the Greek island of Crete
Strongman, educator, culture critic, civil society leader, journalist, publisher and historian. Edward Lawrence Levy was all of these and more.
Freud himself refrained from publicly psychoanalyzing the despot. Dr. W. Beran Wolfe didn’t…
Did an Orthodox girls’ movement and its legendary founder revive an ancient and obscure holiday in the forests of Poland?
The story of two courageous converts, their Jewish wives and institutional anti-Semitism
The son of a famous performer, Kirill Chenkin fought in the Spanish Civil War and was recruited by Soviet intelligence prior to joining the faculty of Black Mountain College. He later became a ‘refusenik’ spokesman…
