Linkedin

Ever since I joined Linkedin I’ve been trying to work out what it is good for apart from aimlessly collecting connections in order to be able to boast ever greater numbers of contacts.
Today I discovered a new feature there that allows me to embed a feed from my blog and to upload PowerPoint slide shows. [...]

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Call for photos of Jewish life in Hesse pre-Shoah

I got an email last week from a researcher working for the Fritz Bauer Institut in Frankfurt. She is looking for photos of pre-Shoah Jewish life in the area. This is the email I got:

**** Search for private photos from Hesse *****
( the areas around Frankfurt,Darmstadt, Wiesbaden,
Kassel, Fulda, Marburg, Hanau, Giessen, etc.)
This is to announce [...]

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A peek into my office

The image on the right shows my room at work. Click on it to enlarge.
I recntly got to sit in my own room on my own. The downside is that I don’t have any windows.  Instead I have artwork (and a corkboard of pictures of my children) on the walls. Next I am going to [...]

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Jewish Ziegenhain

By a series of chances, I happened upon a couple of interesting web pages about the Jewish sites in the town of Ziegenhain, Schwalmstadt in Germany. Ziegenhain is the town where my father’s family came from. We know of two generations of Sterns from Ziegenhain as well as a whole lot of other Sterns from [...]

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Safer Electrical Therapy for Parkinson’s

More hope in sight for a cure to Parkinson’s disease.
After having watched my father die of this disease, I am always on the lookout for hope that there will be a cure before I get too old. From what I understand, it is not a hereditary disease as such, but the propensity to contract it [...]

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The Eshkol Puzzle Deepens

As I wrote a couple of days back, I downloaded the PDFs of both the Auerbach and Albeck Eshkols and perused them.
After writing my original posting on the subject of the Nahal Eshkol, I emailed Prof. Marc B. Shapiro (who is the person who seems to have written the most about this subject online) with [...]

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The Eshkol Online

I just found (it wasn’t that difficult if I had thought to look) both Auerbach’s and Albeck’s Eshkols online. I am downloading them. What particularly interests me are the forwards. I’ll let you know what I found out.

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The Nahal Eshkol Controversy

In my previous post on the subject of R. Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach (BTW, also refered to in other sources as R. Zvi Binyamin Auerbach) I mentioned in passing the controversies in which he was involved and in particular the controversy over his publishing of an edition of the Sefer HaEshkol by R. Abraham ben Isaac [...]

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Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach

After writing about Uri Auerbach yesterday I thought it would be in form to write a few words about his great-great-grandfather Rabbi Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach (1808-1872) who is also known as the Nahal Eshkol and is described in the Jewish Encyclopedia and  Wikipedia as “one of the most prominent leaders of modern Orthodox Judaism”.
You can [...]

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Uri Auerbach and the Bayit HaYehudi

Last night for the first time in my life I went to an election meeting. The meeting was for the “Habayit HaYehudi HaMafdal HaHadasha” party and the speaker was Uri Auerbach. As anyone in Israel will probably know, Uri Auerbach is a jounalist, publicist, radio presenter and childrens writer (I even wrote a blog post [...]

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