All those who score higher than 50 percent may bestow upon themselves the lofty title of amateur historian

Test your knowledge of modern Jewish history with a sampling of questions from across recent centuries

A long and strange paean to the one of the worst czars the Jewish People had ever known

"The great gaon, Sar haTorah and otzar of yirah, Rav Yehuda Leib Forer, chief rabbi of Holyoke, Massachusetts"

A historic encounter between Rabbi Yolles and the founder of Daf Yomi, Rav Meir Shapiro

The reality of Polish life in the countryside, outside the cocoon of sheltered yeshivah life

Conspicuously absent was an emerging rabbinical leader of the Old Yishuv, Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld

“Rabbi, this is likely the last Ketzos that will ever be sold in America!”

From this cadre of talmidei chachamim emerged an entire generation of roshei yeshivah and marbitzei Torah

The prime minister seemed unfazed. “It’s all right. I can assure you that we have people like this with us [in Israel] as well.”