David Oppenheim

Responsa hatam Sofer, Orah hayim 36

Indeed, in the countries where we reside, where the gentile women walk about bareheaded, but our mothers did not go out like that and were most careful on that score, concerned as they were about…

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Photograph of stained glass window arch with smaller arches underneath with etchings of floral designs, leaves, and fruit.

KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation, Chicago, Detail of Decoration at the Balcony Level

In designing this synagogue, Alschuler drew on photographs of the remains of a second-century Byzantine synagogue in Tiberias. He wrote that he designed the synagogue “not in sense of slavish…

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Photograph of man leaning over a bridge.

Herzl Observing the Rhine from the Balcony of Hotel Les Trois Rois during the Fifth Zionist Congress in 1901 in Basel

Ephraim Lilien’s photograph of Theodor Herzl, considered the father of modern political Zionism, depicts him staring off into the distance like a lonely prophet. The congress in Basel in 1901 was the…

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