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This section of the Jewish Law website contains a rabbinical response to an actual case of Siamese twins whose only chance for survival was separation, where only one would continue to live.
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This website is about the genealogy of the Gaon of Vilna and his family. It is based on the book Eliyahu’s Branches, The descendants of the Vilna Gaon and his family. Included are relevant links and reproductions of manuscripts.
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This site presents links to audio and video of Hanukkah songs, essays and classes in English and Hebrew. Included are notes of the classes of reknown rabbis like Rav Yossef Soloveitchik.
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This section of the Jewish Virtual Library website contains an article on the history of women's ordination as rabbis, with reference to the Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist movements, Orthodox women, and a bibliography.
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This section of the Jewish Virtual Library is devoted to Rabbi Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, the most authoritative of the Tiberias masoretes in the 10th century, with his biography.
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This section of the Economicexpert.com website is devoted to Rabbi Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, who in the tenth century developed the Tiberian system for writing down vowel sounds in Hebrew, with his biography.
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1859 - 1914 - Il était le petit-fils de Moïse Bloch, le 'Hokhem de Uttenheim. Il a été successivement rabbin à Remiremont en 1884 puis en 1897, grand rabbin d'Alger et de Lyon. Engagé comme aumônier militaire en 1914, il a été tué en apportant à un soldat moribond, qui l'avait pris pour un prêtre. **** 1859 - 1914 - He was the grandson of...
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This webpage of answers.com presents two biographies of Abraham Isaac Kook 1864–1935, Jewish scholar and philosopher, b. Latvia. He settled (1904) in Palestine, where he became the chief rabbi of the Ashkenazi community in 1921. He attempted to show that Palestine and Zionism were an integral part of Judaism; that those secularist Jews who worked to build up the Jewish homeland were unknowingly d...
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The site provides an article from "The Columbia Encyclopedia" (6th ed., 2001) about Jewish theologian, biblical commentator, and financier Isaac Abarbanel (or Abravanel, 1437-1508).
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This site is devoted to Rabbi Akiva (approximately 50-135) who was one of the greatest Tannaim (Scholars of the Mishnah, the earliest written form of the Oral Torah) and also a founder of rabbinic Judaism.
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This site includes the article from "The Jewish Encyclopedia" (1901-1906) which is devoted to Isaac Alfasi - the eminent Talmudist, famous as the author of the "Halakot".
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This site includes the article from "Junior Judaica, Encyclopedia Judaica for Youth" on CD-ROM related to the biography of rabbi Judah Alkalai - the forerunner of modern Zionism who felt that the Jews should not wait for the Messiah to restore them to the Land of Israel but should make every effort to go there themselves to settle.
