The 15th day of Tammuz (Sunday of this week) is the 257th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Chaim ben Atar, known as the Holy Ohr HaChaim. Hundreds of Jews went overnight to visit his Mt. of Olives ...

In a recent film review in the Jewish Review of Books, Prof. Gavriel Rosenberg blames Holocaust denial on a postmodernist ethos. According to Rosenberg, this ethos has allowed dangerous extremists to ...

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Kanner Hall was the site of Ohr HaChaim’s recent annual melaveh malkah. The shul, known as the Spiegel Shul and located in the Fairfax-Hancock Park community, was originally founded by Spiegel family ...