Other Articles
The pages contains some of the articles I have published in other publications.
Illuminated Megillos Make the Purim Story Come Alive
Hamodia Magazine, February 25, 2010
Megillas Esther is replete with layers upon layers of hidden meanings. Throughout history and in communities around the world, sofrim and artists have produced beautiful scrolls with illustrations from midrashim and chazal to help uncover these secret messages.
A Shul And A Mission
Mishpacha Magazine, January 27, 2010
When Rabbi Emanuel Feldman handed over the reins of Atlanta’s Congregation Beth Jacob, Rabbi Ilan Feldman inherited a shul and a mission. The story of Beth Jacob is the incredible tale of observant and unaffiliated Jews working together to build institutions of Torah in the American South.
Searching for Hidden Treasure
Mishpacha Magazine, December 2, 2009
Rabbi Yitzchok Reisman, a sofer living in New York, made headlines recently through his involvement with the sale of a 700 year-old sefer Torah from Spain through Sotheby’s auction house. But for Rabbi Reisman, who collects, restores and writes sifrei Torah and other seforim, the sale was just one step in an electrifying lifetime journey. He has traveled the world researching and identifying ancient sifrei Torah, has made several remarkable discoveries and was even arrested once in Egypt under suspicion of being a spy.
Got A Minute?
Mishpacha Magazine, November 2009
Congregation Ariel, an outreach shul in the Dunwoody suburb of northern Atlanta, just completed a poignant learning program memorializing Holocaust victims. It began last year when Rabbi Binyomin Friedman challenged his members to collectively learn 1.2 million minutes of Torah in memory of the 1.2 million Jewish children killed in World War Two.