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Have you seen the episode of MASH where Hawkeye performs a bris, supervised remotely by a rabbi via radio and Morse Code? The fictional rabbi may have been based on someone like Rabbi Jerome Lipsitz, a musmach (graduate) of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) in 1952, who served as a chaplain in […]
This photograph of the “Yemenite Queen Esther” in the Tel Aviv Purim parade in 1929 is from the Schussheim Family photo album, a pictorial record of the family’s travels in Palestine in 1929. No mere run of the mill tourists, Rabbi Morris Schussheim (1895-1970) of Providence, Rhode Island, his wife Mary (née Chipkin) and […]
The holiday of Hanukah, the Festival of Lights, celebrates the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Maccabees after its desecration by King Antiochus Epiphanes and the miracle of a day’s worth of oil burning for eight days. Hanukah in 1946 was only the second time the holiday was celebrated after the devastation and […]
The Central Relief Committee (CRC) issued a Thanksgiving appeal for Jewish War Sufferers in 1916, one example of the CRC’s fundraising efforts in its many years of work on behalf of Jews trapped between the warring sides during World War I. The CRC was founded by the Union of Orthodox Congregations of America on October […]
This colorful greeting for Rosh Hashanah, the New Year, was published by the “Defus Even A.L. Monzon” press in Jerusalem in the 1920s. “Defus Even,” stone print, is the Hebrew term for lithography, a specialty of the Monzons. A famed and historic printing house in Jerusalem, the press was founded in 1892 by the brothers […]
Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, Yeshiva University’s long-time Rosh Yeshiva, President (1976-2003), and Chancellor (2003- 2013), died on May 31, 2020.
Rabbi Dr. Lamm was born in Brooklyn in 1927, just as the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary was moving uptown from the immigrant neighborhood of the Lower East Side, its home since 1886, to […]
The San Remo Conference is not as well-known as the Balfour Declaration in the history of key events leading to the birth of the State of Israel, but it may have been even more important. The purpose of the meeting of the World War I Allies in San Remo, Italy, a century ago was to […]
The Children of Israel were redeemed from Egypt in the merit of the righteous women of that generation (Sotah 11:2); women are obligated to partake of the four cups of wine on Passover, since they participated in the miracle (Pesahim 98:1-2); and in the twentieth century in the United States, the “kosher keeping” community must […]
Look at the lively, healthy-looking girl surrounded by a circle of sunlight crowning the title of the poster: she is a radiant picture of health. In this image, the sun’s corona, symbolizes light and well-being. The term corona, the Latin word for crown, has positive associations; in the current crisis it has been turned upside-down; […]
Even before Yeshiva College’s first graduating class in 1932, before the birth of the Commentator, students were provoking the administration and publishing Purim papers. The Yeshiva News GRAGER depicts a rabbinic style figure standing at a shtender reading a megillah while clutching a grager. Placed next to the podium is a wine jug in disguise, […]
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