Yitz Landes

Dec 7, 2023 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Yitz Landes |Akiva Schick |Allan Arkush |Emil Fackenheim

Imagine a Hallmark movie called A Very Teaneck Hanukkah: a large, wholesome family dressed in their best sweaters huddles around a lit menorah singing “Ma’oz Tzur”—the most recognizable and ubiquitous of Hanukkah songs. Or, at least, they quickly sing the first stanza so that they can exchange gifts and sit down to eat the holiday’s traditional oil-fried cuisine.

Sep 26, 2023 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Yitz Landes |Yosef Lindell |Shai Secunda |Aviya Kushner

Oxford University Press2,624 pp., $680 According to a medieval midrash, Moses asked God to write down the Oral Torah:Moses requested that the Mishnah be in writing, but God foresaw that the nations would translate the Torah and would be reading it in Greek and say, “We are Israel!” God said to him, “Oh, Moses! In the future, the nations will be saying, ‘We are Israel; we are the sons of God!’ And Israel will be saying, ‘We are the sons of God!’ . . .

Sep 21, 2023 | thelehrhaus.com | David Landes |Yitz Landes

David J. Landes z”lEdited and Introduced by Yitz LandesOur father, David Landes a”h,arrived in Yeshivat Har Etzion in February of 1973, just a few days after his seventeenth birthday. Having left his high school in Chicago a semester before graduation, he was for a time both one the youngest of the talmidim in the yeshiva and one of the only Americans. He immediately set to work adjusting to what was for him a foreign culture, a new language, and an extremely high level of Talmud study.