ALBANY — A local professor will spend the summer researching an encyclopedia written in the Yiddish language in the 1930s in Berlin and translate parts into English.
University at Albany assistant professor of Judaic studies Barry Trachtenberg was awarded $6,000 to research Di algemeyne entsiklopedye (the General Encyclopedia).
“Very few people are aware of the story of […]
The Russian Government has recently contacted Russia’s Chief, Rabbi Berel Lazar, with an unprecedented offer to release the 40,000 Kesovim to the Chabad run Federation of Jewish Communities of CIS. Among the Kesovim, which were discovered in the archives of the Russian Army around 1995, are Maamorim of the Friediker Rebbe from 1920-1923 and 1929-1935 […]
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The weekly Sichos that were said and edited
by the Rebbe in the years 5751-5752/1991-1992
Hagaon Reb Chaim Kanevsky shlitah has given his approval to learn
in the Chabad weekly pamphlet Dvar Malchus. Shturem.net
The Seforim in the wrong hands are a live bomb
In what may be the most important development in chassidic publishing since the translation of the Tanya in the 1960s (and just in time for Yud-Tes Kislev), Purity Press has announced that the Alter Rebbe’s classics, Torah Or and Likkutei Torah—considered the “Oral Torah of Chassidus” (Tanya being the “Written Torah”)—have been adapted into readily […]
“The Unheeded Crythe gripping story of Rabbi Weissmandl, the valiant Holocaust leader who battled both Allied indifference and Nazi hatred. ”
6 Kislev - R’ Michoel Ber Weissmandel (1957), Rosh Yeshiva of Nitra Yeshiva, renowned for his mesiras nefesh during the Holocaust, risking his own life to save Jews. His wife and children were murdered […]
Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt (bearded), pictured with other cantors. According to the photo caption, Rosenblatt turned down a $100,000 offer from Warner Brothers to play Al Jolson’s father in The Jazz Singer, “because he believed it would demean his sacred calling. Nevertheless, he agreed to play a small part as himself, singing a Yiddish art song, […]
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Rabbi Yekutiel Farkash, a renowned halachic authority of Yerushalayim met with the Mekubal, Rabbi Yitzchak Batzri at the Hashalom yeshiva. COL learned that the meeting was arranged at the request of Rabbi Batzri, who wished to discuss the halachic books written by Rabbi Farkash, ‘Shabbas Kahalocho’, ‘Tahara Kahalocho’, ‘Klalei Hahoraa Vihaposkim’ and ‘Chol Hamoed […]
BROOKLYN , NY – This week, the F.R.E.E. Publishing House, the publishing arm of Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe, in a cooperative effort between the Lechaim Publishing House (Moscow) and the SHAMIR Publishing House (Jerusalem) have issued for the first time the “Selichot“ (Prayers of Repentance) with a modern Russian translation, all in […]
Messianic Temple: Understanding Ezekiel`s Prophecy
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D owntrodden by betrayal and reversals of fortune, Alex Winner never imagined a 2000-year-old Jewish book would bolster his spirits. Two years ago, a concerned friend lugged Winner to Lubavitch World Headquarters, during the High Holidays. “He said I could pray, put on tefillin, give charity, and maybe I’d feel better,” said Winner. In the […]
