An eruv (or eruv ḥatserot, merger of domains) is a symbolic expansion of an area outside a single home into a larger private domain. Within that eruv, certain activities prohibited in the public…
Trapped in Lithuania by the German invasion of Soviet-controlled territory while visiting her sister in Kaunas (Kovno) in 1941, Esther Lurie was imprisoned in a ghetto along with the rest of the city…
The German holy community of Amsterdam was founded in the year 5396 [1635/6]. This I discovered in a few pages of a book written by Maharam Maarsen, one of the first German Jews in…