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Destined To SurviveIsrael Cohen was a prisoner in a slave - labor hell during the Holocaust. More than once the thought that he was a footstep away from the end, but he was destined to survive - to start a new life, raise a proud family,...
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Child of WarWhen little Leibish was eight years old, his world came to an end.It had been a wonderful world, the secure and peaceful world of Chassidic Budapest. And now, in an instant, it was gone. The Nazis had arrived, and Leibish and his family were...
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Chafetz Chaim - 1 - Volume Ed.The definitive biography of Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan of Radin, Poland. Code: 9780899064628 Author: Rabbi Moses M. Yoshor ISBN-10: 0899064620 ISBN-13: 9780899064628 Format: Hardcover Pages: 603 Dimensions: 6.3" x 9.3" Publisher: Artscroll Mesorah Publications Date: 6/1/1984
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Chafetz Chaim: Giant In Torah & MiddosCode: 9781598266634 Author: Shulamit Ezrachi ISBN-10: 1598266632 ISBN-13: 9781598266634 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
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Chazon IshThe inspiring life - story of Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz. Code: 9780899064963 Author: Rabbi Shimon Finkelman ISBN-10: 0899064965 ISBN-13: 9780899064963 Format: Hardcover Pages: 271 Dimensions: 6.3" x 9.3" Publisher: Artscroll Mesorah Publications Date: 3/1/1989
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For The Love of TorahWhen a close talmid for over three decades recalls his interactions, the challenges and the triumphs of his rebbe, it is always worthwhile reading. But when the talmid is the renowned author, Rabbi Hanoch Teller, whose poignant pen has made him the King of...
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Flight to FreedomThe True Story of a Family's Escape from Wartorn Belgium.This remarkable memoir chronicles the trials of a Jewish family struggling to stay one step ahead of the Nazi invasion. While part of the Berkovitz family tries to sail to England, Pappa and Brudi are...
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Fire WithinThe living heritage of the Mussar movement. Code: 9780899065526 Author: Rabbi Hillel Goldberg ISBN-10: 089906552X ISBN-13: 9780899065526 Format: Hardcover Pages: 194 Dimensions: 6.3" x 9.3" Publisher: Artscroll Mesorah Publications Date: 9/1/1987
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Faith Amid The FlamesThe Story of Reb Yosef Friedenson - The Kiddush Hashem He Witnessed And CreatedIn this extraordinary volume, 3,000,000 Polish Jews speak to us - eloquently and inspiringly - through the pen of Yosef Friedenson."Reb Yossel" was more than a survivor, he was an embodiment...
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Rabbi ShererRabbi Moshe Sherer not only changed history, he made history. In the 1940s, a secular Jewish spokesman referred to Orthodox Judaism as"a sickly weed." After a half - century of Rabbi Sherer's wise, visionary, charismatic, and indefatigable advocacy and leadership, the Torah community was...
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Rabbi Naftali HaKohen Katz: His Life & Legacy and Ethical Will (2 Volume Set)Presenting for the first time to an English-speaking audience a vivid biography of the holy and action-filled life, and the ethical will, of one of the greatest sages and kabbalists, Rabbi Naftali HaKohen Katz (c. 5409 (c. 1648) - 5479 (1719)), of righteous memory.Rabbi...
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Rabbi Meir ZlotowitzHe taught so many of us to learn. He taught so many of us to pray.Now, through his engrossing life story, Reb Meir Zlotowitz will teach us how to become better parents, better children, better friends. Better people.Many of us know the story of...
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Rabbi Manis MandelHere's what three renowned Torah leaders say about Rabbi Manis Mandel:"When I have a chinuch - related problem, I think what would Reb Manis say? ""He was the greatest mechanech I ever knew.""There is only one Rabbi Manis Mandel. He was unique." "His greatness...
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Rabbi JJ HechtRabbi JJ Hecht was a man determined to make a difference, closely guided by the Rebbe Rayats and fiercely devoted to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Hecht was a powerful, unrelenting force on the front lines of preserving Torah-true Judaism and the future of the...
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Rabbi Dr. Solomon SchonfeldIn Germany and Austria, many Jewish people were in danger. They needed to send their children to safer places, like England. But who would take care of them there? Who would make sure they had homes to live in and schools to attend? Rabbi...
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Rabbi Chaim SegalBuilding Bnei Torah in AmericaThis is a book with so many facets, it's almost impossible to define. It is the evolution of one man's dream to create b'nei Torah in turbulent times. It is a panoramic perspective of how to apply timeless principles in...
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Rabbi Avraham BlumenthalDuring World War I, so many children in Jerusalem were orphaned that a new home had to be created for them. Rabbi Avraham Y. Blumenthal created that home. It was called the Zion Orphanage. Rabbi Blumenthal became the children's father. He cared for them...
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Profiles in GreatnessRabbi Moshe Wittow grew up surrounded by greatness in Torah. Not only did his family live in the same building as Rav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, ztz"l, but R' Moshe's father, R' Asa Wittow, was Rav Scheinberg's disciple and driver for over 50 years. The...
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R' Samson Raphael HirschThe inspiring life - story of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. Code: 9780899066325 Author: Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Klugman ISBN-10: 0899066321 ISBN-13: 9780899066325 Format: Hardcover Pages: 428 Dimensions: 6.3" x 9.3" Publisher: Artscroll Mesorah Publications Date: 1/30/1996
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Rabbi Aaron BrafmanHis Great Heart Uplifted His Talmidim And Community, And Embraced Klal Yisrael Foreword By Rabbi Nosson Scherman"He lived and breathed kevod Shamayim and kevod habriyos and accomplished everything... quietly, without fanfare." - Rabbi Eytan Feiner"So, doctor, my brother has an especially huge heart... right?"...
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Princes Among MenOn Rosh Chodesh Adar II, 5758 - March 6, 2008 - a terrorist infiltrated the Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav - Yeshivat Yerushalayim L'tzeirim (Yashlatz high school) shared campus and killed eight young students of the two yeshivot while injuring dozens more. Throughout Israel and the...
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Pillar of FireThe inspiring life - story of Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin. Code: 9780899068473 Author: Menachem Mendel ISBN-10: 0899068472 ISBN-13: 9780899068473 Format: Hardcover Pages: 173 Dimensions: 6.3" x 9.3" Publisher: Artscroll Mesorah Publications Date: 6/1/1992
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Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at LastWith a foreword by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel! Israel Meir Lau, one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, was just eight years old when the camp was liberated in 1945. Descended from a 1,000-year unbroken chain of rabbis, he grew up to become Chief...
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Our Morah In UniformWelcoming Shabbos Stories, inspiration, and insightsWait! Listen! Open your ears (and your eyes and your heart). Can you hear it? It's the wondrous song of Shabbos. And it's coming, with its blessings and its peace and its delights and its beauty.Erev Shabbos. Yes, it's...
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One of The Thirty - Six Hidden TzaddikimHagaon Rav Yitzchak Silber zt'l: His life and legacy, as told by his students and those close to him.Rav Yitzchak had to find someone urgently, probably for a get, but he did not know the address. He called a taxi,came out of the house,...
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Open Up The Iron Door: Memoirs of A Soviet Jewry ActivistInspired by the cautionary lesson of the silence of many leaders during the Holocaust and the fearlessness of the Civil Rights movement, from 1964 to 1991 grassroots activists spearheaded a worldwide liberation effort. The demand? That Jews be allowed to leave the Soviet Union....
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Our Man in JerusalemAmazing stories from RABBI YISROEL GELLIS, journalist, radio personality, and tenth-generation Yerushalmi It is only a few hours since the Kosel, the Western Wall, was liberated... and Yisroel Gellis is there. Hundreds of Sifrei Torah have to be smuggled out of Iraq and into...
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One by One: Stories of the Lubavitcher RebbeOne By One: From the acclaimed weekly Here's My Story Series. Read sixty-six vividly diverse stories of guidance, perspective and encouragement. Experience the essence of the Rebbe's soul-to-soul leadership. The psychiatrist with a vision for change. The lonely yeshivah student. The young girl looking...
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NouriThe orphan, raised by his grandmother, caught in an unusual custody battle that only a bet din can resolve. The prosperous businessman building up a family and a community on the quiet streets of Bensonhurst, lending money to others so that they can open...
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Noble Lives Noble Deeds - Volume 3The newest volume in this popular series by Rabbi Dovid Silber continues to bring us touching aneCDotes about dozens of great Rabbinic figures, each one accompanied by a biographic profile.Why would the seemingly affluent young Leizer Yudel Finkel walk the muddy streets of Radin...
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Noble Lives Noble Deeds - Volume 2Code: 9781578197422 Author: Rabbi Dovid Silber ISBN-10: 1578197422 ISBN-13: 9781578197422 Format: Hardcover Pages: 269 Dimensions: 6.3" x 9.3" Publisher: Artscroll Mesorah Publications Date: 2/12/2003
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Noble Lives Noble DeedsUnlike tales of heroic feats, this rare collection of aneCDotes recounts the seemingly"simple" acts of extraordinary individuals. We learn how the truly great lived their lives with a sense of inner nobility that carried them through challenges both great and small.Why did Rav Yisroel...
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My Uncle The NetzivA first - person account of life with Rabbi Naftali Tvi Yehudah Berlin, Rosh Yeshivah of Volozhin. Code: 9780899064925 Author: Moshe Dombey,Rabbi Boruch Epstein,N.T. Erline ISBN-10: 0899064922 ISBN-13: 9780899064925 Format: Hardcover Pages: 223 Dimensions: 6.3" x 9.3" Publisher: Artscroll Mesorah Publications Date: 5/1/1988
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My Life on WheelsA young woman's inspiring journey of faith, courage, hope, and happinessBreindy H. is a severely disabled young woman, who must rely on others for her every need. Yet her mind is sharp, intelligent, witty and even humorous. In this book she describes the challenges...
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My RebbeWhen Menachem Mendel Schneerson became the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Chabad - Lubavitch consisted of a small group of Chasidim recovering from near annihilation in the Holocaust. During his forty years of leadership, Rabbi Schneerson transformed Chabad into a global movement marked by extensive outreach...
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My Friends, We Were Robbed!In the late 1970s, an Israeli named Uri Zohar quietly made a decision to become Torah observant. When the news of that decision became public knowledge, it plunged a good portion of Israeli society, frum and non - frum alike, into total shock. You...
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Memorable EncountersAs the leader and National Director of Torah Umesorah, the National Association for Hebrew Day Schools, Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky was instrumental in creating the Day School movement. Here, he looks back on an excitement - studded life, and his "memorable encounters" with Torah leaders...
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Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel's SoulReviled as a fascist by his great rival Ben-Gurion, venerated by Israel's underclass, the first Israeli to win the Nobel Peace Prize, a proud Jew but not a conventionally religious one, Menachem Begin was both complex and controversial. Born in Poland in 1913, Begin...
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MetamorphosisDr. Vladimir Zelenko is a well - known name within many Orthodox Jewish circles. A beloved family doctor and member of Hatzolah, he is a Lubavitcher chassid who works primarily in the Satmar community of Monroe.How did an irreligious Russian - American young man...
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Manchester Rosh YeshivaThe inspiring life - story of Rabbi Yehudah Zev Segal. Code: 9780899062877 Author: Rabbi Shimon Finkelman ISBN-10: 0899062873 ISBN-13: 9780899062877 Format: Hardcover Pages: 395 Dimensions: 6.3" x 9.3" Publisher: Artscroll Mesorah Publications Date: 12/1/1996
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MaranThe Life & Scholarship of Hacham Ovadia YosefMaran - The Life & Scholarship of Hacham Ovadia Yosef takes a look at one of the most influential and beloved rabbis of the past century, whose life's work has altered the course of Sephardic society in...
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Maran Harav OvadiaHe had a mind big enough to master all of Torah. A spirit big enough to lead his people. And a heart big enough to contain all of Klal Yisrael.Maran Harav Ovadia Yosef met with Prime Ministers, Presidents, great rabbis - and the humblest...
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Meant To Be: A MemoirIn Meant to Be, Rabbi Hier recounts the events of his dazzling life: the miraculous birth and growth of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Moriah Films, and the Museums of Tolerance; the hunt for the Nazi Angel of Death, Josef Mengele; encounters with renowned Jewish...
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Loyal SoldierFascinating, true story of one soldier's (Captain Hank (Zvi) Webb) journey through life, from youth, to boot camp, to Vietnam, his return to a hostile United States, and ultimately to Judaism. Code: 9781931681872 Author: Shaindy Perl ISBN-10: 1931681872 ISBN-13: 9781931681872 Format: Hardcover Pages: 216...
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Making a DifferenceIn his unique and dynamic way, he touched the world and changed the lives of thousands. The Story of Reb Dovid Winiarz.A young man gives a Jewish book to each of the waiters and waitresses under his charge in camp one summer. Jennifer, one...
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Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach: Life, Mission, and LegacyRabbi Shlomo Carlebach-a man considered the most influential composer of Jewish religious music of the 20th century and a progenitor of the modern neo-Hasidic renaissance-is the focus of this systematic study. The book presents a scholarly analysis of his teachings, innovations, and music and...
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Rashi: The Story of Rabbi Shlomo YitzchakiThis book traces the life story of this great teacher of Israel. Born in Troyes, France, in the eleventh century, Rashi studied with some of the greatest teachers of his time and eventually established his own yeshiva. the inspiring story of his life is...
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Rabbi Menachem Ziemba - HebrewRav Menachem Ziemba Hy”d was a legend, accepted and revered by all of Klal Yisrael. A prince of Torah and chassidus, he was a distinguished rav in pre-war Warsaw. In addition to his involvement with the tzibbur, he was also a prolific writer, penning countless chiddushei Torah. Tragically, he and his family...
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