Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 11 Sivan
Rav Shmuel Rosenberg of Unsdorf, author of Be'er Shmuel (1919). Son of Rav Yisrael Yona Zvi, Rav of ...
Maran Rav Elazar Menachem Man Shach zt”l, On His Yahrtzeit, Today, 16 Cheshvan
By Rav Mordechai Kamenetsky
He was the Sar HaTorah, the Rosh Kol Bnai HaGolah. The yochid b'doro whose passing left no other like him in...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 28 Nissan
Rav Shabsai Sheftl Horowitz II (1590-1660). The son of the Shelah Hakodesh, Reb Shabsai studied under his father ...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 24 Elul
Chabakuk Hanavi
Rav Yisrael Meir Kagan of Radin (1838-1933). As a 9-year-old boy, he entered the yeshiva in Vilna. After marrying at 17 years of age,...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 26 Elul
Rav Eliyahu Tzarfati, author of Eliyahu Zuta (1805)
Rav Chaim Pinto of Mogador (1758-1845). The famous Pinto family was dispersed worldwide - primarily to Morocco, the...
Today’s Yahrtzeit and History – 23 Shevat
Rav Aharon ben Chaim Avraham HaKohen Perachia (1627-1697). He was a wealthy man and was appointed chief rabbi of Salonika in 1688. He authored...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 19 Elul
Rav Yaakov of Orleans, one of the Baalei Tosefos and a student of Rabbeinu Tam, was killed with many other Jews in London during...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History- 28 Teves
Rav Shmuel Berenbaum, Rosh Yeshiva of Mir in Brooklyn (1921-2008). Born in the small Polish-Lithuanian town of Kinishen, Reb Shmuel began his formal learning...
Today’s Yahrtzeits – 23 Teves
Rav Yehuda Aryeh Leib HaLavi Epstein, know as Reb Leibush of Ople (1837). Orphaned of his father, Rav Yechiel Michel Epstein, and hismother at...
Rav Shmuel Salant zt”l, Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim, On His 101st Yahrtzeit, Today, 29...
Rav Shmuel Salant zt"l, who lived from January 2, 1816 to August 16, 1909, served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim and was...
Rav Moshe Mordechai Epstein zt”l, On His Yahrtzeit, Today
To relate the story of the Rav Moshe Mordechai Epstein is to relate the story of the Slabodka...
Rav Chaim Stein zt”l, On His Yahrtzeit, Today
Today is the yahrtzeit of Rav Chaim Stein zt"l, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Telshe-Cleveland, who lived a life totally devoted to Torah and the...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 29 Shevat
Rav Eliyahu Habachur Halevi "the Ba'al Hatishbi," famous Hebrew grammarian (1549).
Rav Yitzchak Yerucham Diskin (1839-1925), born in Valkovisk, Russia, the son of ...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 11 Cheshvan
Mesushelach ben Chanoch, grandfather of Noach (3074 BCE - 2105 BCE)
Rochel Imeinu (1554 BCE) (according to the Vilna Gaon, she was 36 years old;...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 24 Cheshvan
Binyamin ben Yaakov Avinu, buried near Kfar Saba
Rav Avraham Azulai (1670-1744). Born in Fez to Rav Mordechai Azulai. In 1700, he fulfilled his life's...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 29 Teves
Rav Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818-1898), the Rav of Brisk, Yerushalayim leader, son of Rav Binyamin Diskin, Rav of Volkovisk. He was born in Horodno....
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 27 Kislev
Rav Tzvi Hersh Rosanish, author of Tesha Shitos (1804). He was the son of Rav Yissachar Dovrish, Av Beis Din of Podhajce, and grandson...
Former VP Mike Pence: Israel’s Fight is Our Fight
“We stand with Israel because her cause is our cause,” former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said, addressing the Iranian American Jewish Federation of...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 18 Sivan
Rav Avraham Hakohen Rappaport Shrentzel, Rosh Yeshivas Chevron (1584-1651). As a youth, he learned under Rav Meshulam Feivush, the Rav of Cracow. He married...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 26 Sivan
Rav Yonasan ben Uziel, student of Hillel.
Rav Yosi ben Kisma (quoted in Pirke Avos 6:9 and Sanhedrin 98a).
Rav Yehoshua (ben Yosef) Bucksbaum, the...
