Biographies

Rabbi Meir Shapiro envisioned Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin as a magnificent institution spiritually and physically, the latter a revolutionary idea in...

Though famous as founder of Daf Yom and the Chachmei Lublin yeshiva, Rabbi Meir Shapiro was also a member of...

When Stalin and Hitler signed a treaty in 1939, it opened the door for Hitler to begin WWII, seek world...

The famous Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook is credited with starting the Chief Rabbinate in the modern State of Israel but...

Kaiser Wilhelm II was so arrogant that when he visited Jerusalem in 1898 he made them take down the ancient...

Although Theodore Herzl founded Zionism the modern idea of a Jewish state had been in the air decades, originating with...

Friedrich Nietzsche's writings were used by the Nazis to make a lethal ideology that brought the world to war and...

One of the strange quirks in history is that Rabbi Israel Salanter and the followers of his Mussar Movement were...

The Netziv, Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin: While yet a teenager in his father-in-law’s house, the...

By the mid-1800s, the Reform Movement had in essence taken over Jewish life in Germany. Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch restored...