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Challenging Isolation

Too much isolation set Nadav and Avihu over the edge.

Joseph Soloveitchik

The preeminent figure of American Modern Orthodoxy, the man known as 'the Rav' ordained thousands of rabbis.

Early Medieval Halachic Texts

In the early Middle Ages, leading scholars across Europe and North Africa produced different genres of legal writings.

Rabbi Isaac Alfasi: Rif

A legal code for the Jews of medieval North Africa and Spain.

Moshe (Moses) Isserles: Rema

Rema's glosses emended and enhanced the Shulchan Aruch.

The Mishneh Torah

Maimonides' halachic magnum opus.

Sephardic Halachic Texts of the Middle Ages

As Jewish communities grew throughout the Muslim world, they developed their own rabbinical schools and scholars.

Soviet Jewry

A history of the Zionist movement in the Soviet Union.

Midrash Rabbah

Rabbinic interpretations and discussions of the Bible.

Jerusalem Contested

The Holy City changed hands many times before the War of Independence.

Who Was Jacob?

The father of the children of Israel.

The Ten Plagues

Of blood, frogs, hail and more.

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