Under Rav Ovadiah’s spiritual guidance, the political trajectory of Shas saw a remarkable ascent

Mesivta Rav Chaim Berlin was founded in the early ’30s by the rising star in the yeshivah world, Rav Yitzchok Hutner

He began humming Kol Nidrei, and suddenly Purim had been transformed into Yom Hakippurim.…

Ultimately the Greenberg Rosh Hashanah story reflects the tragic course of American Jewish assimilation

Rav Sonnenfeld reassured me, “To have the Chofetz Chaim come to Eretz Yisrael, I would sign on Hoshana Rabbah with both hands”

What ultimately facilitated shemiras Shabbos in the United States

“Jewish history as a discipline and Jewish history books in general did not come into vogue until the late nineteenth century”

“If one sets out to produce only generals, who knows if there will be any soldiers?”

“In the name of Hashem, wishing a long life with many long years and peace, to Hagaon Moreinu Rabbeinu Rav Shmuel ben Rav Tzvi, amen v’amen."

As I did not understand a word except now and then an Amen or Hallelujah, my attention was directed to the haste with which they covered their heads with their hats as soon as the ...

Rav Yosef Eliyahu Henkin (1881–1973) was one of America’s greatest poskim