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A Lesson For the Children – Summary of part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 and part 6: Summary of the previous chapters: The daughter of the SHACH...

A Lesson For the Children – Summary of part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5: Summary of the previous chapters: The six-year-old daughter of the SHACH was...

Land of My Birth – Sixty years ago, on the eve of Rosh Chodesh Av 5707 (1947), an immigration ship by the name of “Leaving Europe 5707” (also known as “Exodus...

A Lesson For the Children – Summary of part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4: Summary of the previous chapters: The six-year-old daughter of the SHACH was lost in...

Land of My Birth – Sir Moshe Montefiore was an extremely wealthy Jewish banker who lived a respectable life in London. But when he reached the age of 40, he decided...

A Lesson For the Children – Summary of part 1, part 2 and part 3: Esther, the six-year-old daughter of the SHACH, a famous rabbi, was lost and picked up by...

A Lesson For the Children – Summary of part 1 and part 2: After his wife passed away, the Shach was forced by the Cossacks to flee into the forest. When it...

A Lesson For the Children – Summary of part 1: The wife of the prominent rabbi, the Shach, passed away. He was forced to flee from the Cossacks, and he had...

Land of My Birth – During the year 1944 (5704-5), some soldiers from the “Jewish Brigade” were stationed in Egypt. This was a Jewish fighting force that was part of the...

A Lesson For the Children – Rabbi Shabtai HaKohen, one of the most prominent of all our rabbis, lived in the Latvian town of Prinsk. Rabbi Hacohen is known by the...