For the RecordTuesday, November 14, 2023A Sanhedrin in the City of LightsIn 1806 Napoleon called for an assembly of Jewish leaders to form what he referred to as a “Sanhedrin”
For the RecordTuesday, November 07, 2023Between the Pale and St. PetersburgThe generous Gunzburgs supported a wide array of Jewish institutions, religious, social, and educational organizations
For the RecordTuesday, October 31, 2023Framed in Plotzk“Yet who mourns the death of the chassidic rabbi of Plotzk? Who but a few fellow Jews even took notice of it?”
For the RecordTuesday, October 24, 2023They Called Him Reb ShmuelHis experiences on this journey so impressed him that he committed himself to religious observance
For the RecordTuesday, October 10, 2023Shas and PoskimUnder Rav Ovadiah’s spiritual guidance, the political trajectory of Shas saw a remarkable ascent
For the RecordTuesday, September 26, 2023Far Away in Far RockawayMesivta Rav Chaim Berlin was founded in the early ’30s by the rising star in the yeshivah world, Rav Yitzchok Hutner
For the RecordTuesday, September 19, 2023At the Time of Ne’ilahHe began humming Kol Nidrei, and suddenly Purim had been transformed into Yom Hakippurim.…
For the RecordTuesday, September 12, 2023Hammerin’ Hank and Judgment DayUltimately the Greenberg Rosh Hashanah story reflects the tragic course of American Jewish assimilation
For the RecordTuesday, September 05, 2023The Chofetz Chaim Tries to Move to Eretz YisraelRav Sonnenfeld reassured me, “To have the Chofetz Chaim come to Eretz Yisrael, I would sign on Hoshana Rabbah with both hands”
For the RecordTuesday, August 29, 2023Ain’t Gonna Work on SaturdayWhat ultimately facilitated shemiras Shabbos in the United States