In a development of events that continues to infuriate Jews worldwide, fourteen kevorim were destroyed on Har Hazeisim over the in the past few days, including the kevorim of several American Jews. Most of the damage…
Jacob Saul Elyashar 1817–1906 Jacob Saul Elyashar was a rabbi in the Land of Israel during the time of Ottoman rule. In 1893 he became the Sephardi Chief Rabbi among the Jews in Israel. Under…
Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) One of eight daughters of a Baltimore rabbi, Henrietta Szold was a passionate and accomplished student of Judaism. She even won permission to study Jewish texts at the then male-only Jewish Theological…
Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg 1979,1980-2008 Frida, Gavriel’s mother, told of the couple’s commitment to the Chabad center in Mumbai.”There is no other couple like them, they did so much for strangers,” she said.”They helped people…
Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik 1917-2001 The youngest of five children, Soloveichik was born to Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik in Khislavichi, Russia, at which time his father was the rabbi of that town. The late Rav Joseph Ber…
The Ben Ish Chai – Chacham Yosef Chaim 1832-1904 Chacham Yosef Chaim was born in 1832 in the city of Baghdad where his father was the Rabbi. (Chacham [wise man] is commonly used among Sephardim…
Judah ben Solomon Chai Alkalai 1798–1878 Judah ben Solomon Chai Alkalai was a Sephardic rabbi in Zemun in the Austrian Empire’s District of Velika Kikinda (in present day Serbia) and one of pioneers of modern…
Uri Zvi Grinberg 1896–1981 Uri Zvi Grinberg (Hebrew: אורי צבי גרינברג) was an acclaimed Israeli poet and journalist who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew. Uri Zvi Grinberg was born in Bialikamin, Galicia, then Austria-Hungary, into…