For more than two years in the 1950's, avant-garde ethno-musicologist Harry Smith recorded a Lower East Side Rabbi's cantorial music, folk songs and Yiddish story-telling. The Rabbi's eccentric ...

Having studied for twelve years at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva under the tutelage of Rabbi Kook’s only son, HaRav Tzvi Yehuda Kook, Rabbi David Samson is considered a leading English-speaking authority ...

Back in the 1950s, Harry Smith, the renowned ethnomusicologist, spent two years recording the songs and stories of Nuftali Zvi Margolies Abulafia, a prominent Jewish orthodox rabbi who lived on New ...

For centuries, a quiet war has raged in the halls of academia and the sanctuaries of theology. It revolves around the fundamental nature of reality. On one side is the physical world—concrete, visible ...

The present Jewish community traces back to 1740s under the patronage of Daher El Omar, who persuaded the aged sage Rabbi Chayim Abulafia of Smyrna to rebuild the desolated community. His many ...

A Manhattan record label and a Minnesota distributor/publisher of spoken word audio, including books and radio programs, are among the companies that have expressed interest in a rare collection of ...

Rabbi Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia, founder of the school of “Prophetic Kabbalah”, was born in Zaragoza, in Aragon Spain, in 1240. In his book Sefer Mafeah HaShemot, Rabbi Abulafia states that in the ...

Last week I had the pleasure of driving from Jerusalem to Beit Shemesh with Rabbi David Samson, my co-editor on our new book, “Torat Eretz Yisrael Anthology,” a 700 page compilation of essays written ...