Communicated: TefillaChillul Tefila Bifarhesia, as well as halachicly challenged verbiage and dress, are external manifestations of a critical lack of personal yiras shomayim which has lethal consequences.
The Founding Of Yeshiva Etz Chaim
Posted on: April 30th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryBetween 1881 and 1924 approximately two million Jews immigrated to the United States, primarily from Eastern Europe and Russia.
Rabbi Moshe Meir Matlin, Torah Education Pioneer
Posted on: April 2nd, 2008
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish History"More than a million Jewish immigrants landed on the shores of the United States between 1881 and 1905.
General Grant’s Expulsion Of The Jews
Posted on: March 5th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryWhile the Civil War was raging at the end of 1862, General Ulysses S. Grant sent the following letter to the Assistant Secretary of War:
Posted on: January 30th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryThe Peixotto family played a prominent role in the American Jewish community during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Forty Years As Rav Of Baltimore’s Congregation Shearith Israel
Posted on: January 3rd, 2008
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryDespite his remarkable qualifications, it became clear to Dr. Schaffer that he would not be able to obtain a rabbinical position in either Germany or Russia.
Posted on: December 5th, 2007
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryWe are all aware that the Sabbath is observed on Saturday, the seventh day of the week.
Alfred Mordecai’s Agonizing Decision
Posted on: October 31st, 2007
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryThe Civil War caused a great divide among Americans, pitting brother against brother, relative against relative, friend against friend. Jews fought on both sides in this conflict, and they also found themselves beset with divided loyalties. Alfred Mordecai was one such individual who was forced to make a most difficult decision that cost him his career and alienated him from family and friends..
Columbus Day 1892 And The Jews Of New York
Posted on: October 2nd, 2007
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryFrom these headlines it is clear that the 400th anniversary of Columbus discovering the New World was cause for great celebration by New York Jewry.
The Jews Of Martinique And Guadeloupe
Posted on: September 5th, 2007
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish History"The Jewish history of Martinique and Guadeloupe is relatively short, spanning only about 60 years.
The Jewish Community Of St. Eustatius
Posted on: August 1st, 2007
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryThe small island of St. Eustatius [in Dutch: Sint Eustatius, and now named simply Statia] is one of the Netherlands Antilles islands, along with St Maarten, Saba, Cura?ao, and Bonaire.
David Mendes And Zipporah Nunes Machado
Posted on: July 4th, 2007
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryOne of the truly amazing aspects of Jewish history is that there were Jews who secretly maintained as much religious observance as they could while living under the merciless eye of the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal.
Did Haym Salomon Really Finance The American Revolution?
Posted on: May 30th, 2007
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryOne of the most fascinating figures in American Jewish history is Haym Salomon (1740-1785).
The Jews Of Nevis And Alexander Hamilton
Posted on: May 2nd, 2007
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryThe sister islands of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis lie about 225 miles southeast of Puerto Rico in the Leeward Islands in the Eastern Caribbean. Nevis, the smaller of the two islands, is elliptically shaped and has a land area of approximately five by seven miles. When Christopher Columbus spotted this eight-mile-long island on his second voyage to the New World in 1493, he mistook its cloud-shrouded mountains for icy peaks and named it Nuestra Se?ora de las Nieves (Our Lady of the Snows).
The Beginnings Of Jewish Education In New York
Posted on: April 2nd, 2007
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish History"Jewish communities from time immemorial have recognized educational institutions as the bedrock of Jewish continuity.
Posted on: February 28th, 2007
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryThe Gomez family was one the foremost Jewish families in New York during colonial times.
Posted on: February 1st, 2007
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryIn the late 1800's and early 1900's America was called the treifa medina by many religious Jews living in Eastern Europe.
Posted on: January 3rd, 2007
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryFor centuries Mexico was inhabited by a number of different Indian races.
Rebecca Gratz: Champion Of The Unfortunate
Posted on: November 30th, 2006
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryIn the 18th and 19th centuries, the lives of most women were centered on family matters. Rebecca Gratz took a very different course. She never married, but instead "devoted her adult life to providing relief for Philadelphia's underprivileged women and children and securing religious, moral and material sustenance for all of Philadelphia's Jews.
Early Caribbean Jewish Communities (Part II)
Posted on: November 1st, 2006
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryIn 1527 the Spanish took possession of Curacao.
Early Caribbean Jewish Communities (Part I)
Posted on: October 4th, 2006
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryPlaces like Barbados, Curacao, Jamaica, Tobago, the Lesser Antilles, and St. Eustatia probably conjure up, in the minds of many Jewish Press readers, visions of vacation resorts.
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