Among the Techeiles community, it’s well known that Rabbi Chaim Yisroel Belsky ZT”L wore Techeiles but didn’t actively tell people they needed to wear it. What many people don’t know was his journey to arrive to the conclusion that murex…
By Steven Gutkin Associated Press Zebulon Simentov, 42, holds a peeling poster containing Judaic themes in Kabul, Afghanistan. Kabul’s last two Jews, Simentov and Isaq Levin live at separate ends of the same decaying synagogue in the capital of Kabul…
BY LAURA E. ADKINS OCTOBER 31, 2019 11:33 AM (JTA) — As the old saying goes, two Jews, three opinions. Add one headache for the Taliban. Meet Zabulon Simentov, 66, who is believed to be the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan. Emran Feroz recently profiled Simentov…
(6 Aug 2002) 1. Various of Ishaq Levin praying at the Jewish cemetery of Kabul. 2. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Ishaq Levin: “I came here today to deliver my prayers. This is the old Jewish cemetery of Kabul where more than…
From http://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2011/02/unknown-portrait-of-vilna-gaon.html: ” This is from page 2 of the Camden News of Camden, Arkansas Saturday, May 15, 1937. Since someone is going to joke that the Vilna Gaon is not wearing a yarmulke, but the Cardinal is – well, I…
Originally from Baltimore Jewish Life. By BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Rabbi Elchonon Oberstein Rabbi Yosef Tendler is the Menahel (Principal) of Ner Israel’s High School and has had an impact on thousands of talmidim. The following is his story, told in his words…