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Jan 15, 2025 | 
jewishpress.com | Saul Singer
Robert Sherman (1925-2012) and his younger brother, Richard Morton Sherman (1928-2024), were American songwriters and collaborators who created more motion picture musical song scores than any other songwriting team in film history. Their work included poignant ballads, lilting lullabies, swaggering marches, peppy dance numbers, and stout vaudeville tunes, with many becoming instant standards that continue to withstand the test of time.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
jewishpress.com | Saul Singer
Shlomo Ben-Yosef (1913-1938), along with Yehoshua “Shalom” Zurabin and Avraham Shein, were members of the Irgun best known for their April 21, 1938 attack on a bus carrying Arab civilians, which they intended as retaliation for an earlier attack by Arabs against Jews.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Saul Singer
The wound of October 7 is still open, but we can already see that it will leave a ragged scar not just on Israeli, but Jewish, history. The catastrophe and its still rippling impacts have revealed the illusion of a bright line between Jews who live in Israel and those who don’t. A common enemy does us the favor of dwarfing our distinctions and reminding us what we have in common. We face the common challenge of building our resilience as a people.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
jewishpress.com | Saul Singer
Exhibited here is an original sketch of Rav Azriel Hildesheimer by Hermann Struck. Rav Hildesheimer (1820-1899) was an important pioneering modernizer of Orthodox Judaism in Germany and a founder of Modern Orthodox Judaism.
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Dec 25, 2024 | 
jewishpress.com | Saul Singer
There are numerous references to baseball throughout the Jewish holy texts and sources, including:“Spherical, like a ball… “Maimonides, Torah Laws and Principles, 3:4“Damages done at the time of the fall of the pitcher…”Talmud, Tractate Baba Kamma“If the catcher moves to catch it, he is liable…”Talmud, Tractate Shabbos“On a diamond, one must be a maven.”Discourse by R.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
jewishpress.com | Saul Singer
In this January 22, 1958 correspondence to Dr. Horst Salomon, director of the Tel-Aviv Philharmonic, Otto Nosson Klemperer writes:I feel compelled to tell you personally how deeply I regret that I have been forced to cancel the concerts in Israel at the moment. The enclosed letter from the Department of State caused you the greatest embarrassment, and me no less. All my hope rests in the future.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
jewishpress.com | Saul Singer
On August 17, 1790, President Washington visited Newport, Rhode Island, along with Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and others to generate support for the proposed Bill of Rights. During his stay, he was welcomed by Moses Seixas, the lay leader of the Newport Jewish community, and he was taken on a tour of The Touro Synagogue, still the oldest standing synagogue in the United States.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
jewishpress.com | Saul Singer
Indisputably one of Israel’s greatest leaders and one of the greatest Jews of all time, Menachem Begin (1913-1992) was a participant in many of the major events in modern Jewish history: the evolution of Zionism, the resistance to the Nazi genocide, the Soviet conquest of Eastern Europe, the struggle against British rule in Eretz Yisrael, the founding of the state of Israel, and the peace treaty with Egypt.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
jewishpress.com | Saul Singer
The U.N. At The Time Of Israel’s Founding Although the United Nations has proven itself beyond any reasonable doubt to be a reliably implacable enemy of Israel, there were two seminal events at the time of the founding of modern Israel where the U.N. not only supported Israel but, indeed, also facilitated its birth and its acceptance as one of the nations of the world: first, the 1947 Partition Plan that created a Jewish State in Eretz Yisrael and, second, the admission of Israel as a U.N....
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
jewishpress.com | Saul Singer
The author wishes to acknowledge and thank Rabbi Efraim Mintz and Rabbi Shmuel Super for their invaluable assistance regarding the Rebbe’s letter featured in this article. Any errors herein are mine, and only mine.
