Gershon Klapper

@Montgomery2025 @Mottel @nytimes No, it's a paper replica. A real torah is written on parchment.

@gershon_JP @Mottel @nytimes If that's a sifardi Torah, it's rolled on the inside. It just has a different cover.

Interesting @nytimes article, but there is a mistake almost immediately. The Bnei Menashe don't claim descent from Manasseh, king of Judah, but rather the tribe of Manasseh (from the tribal patriarch, Manasseh the son of Joseph) which was one of the 12 tribes of Israel and one of the 10 lost tribes. Not Judah at all.

@LahavHarkov Palm Beach Country Club was opened by Jews in 1952

Interesting end to this story, according to this article, that Trump opened the first integrated country club in Palm Beach

סיפור פסיכי mako.co.il/news-israel/20…

By this definition Nineveh was the least walkable city in history

@mizrahi_israel Question: I had an edition in double elephant folio, where did that come from?

A stunning 1863 Trieste Haggadah — 58 copper engravings, an elegant Italian translation & a bold vision of Jewish life. One of the 19th century's greatest Hebrew printing achievements. Read about it here: jewishpress.com/the-trieste-ha…

Pretty good autocorrect error in this 2022 Brill book

@xenocryptsite He probably gets some credit for jumpstarting the Thanksgiving season a week early, and maybe that set them up to ride this wave as well as they have. But the counterfactual isn't October grosses all year.

@xenocryptsite This is a higher peak but grosses double every November. It's the scale that's unusual, not the shape.

The Tom Felton Effect? Truly wild. He's making them millions and millions of dollars, directly attributable.

@backhandoftruth @bradwolfdesign

@bradwolfdesign I'm not a pro but I think this would make the most sense. Keeps the W intact and the entry and exit points make sense.

The way that the spear weaves through the W in the new Commanders logo is physically impossible. Reminds me of an M.C. Escher painting. Here’s my quick fix.

in re the development of Shalom Aleichem

@ASPertierra you don't get to pick the title! In this recent example Bruckner told me she wanted "Biblical Encounters in Vernacular Literature".

Two promises for my eventual book: 1) footnotes not endnotes, even when this means some pages are 75% footnote 2) my book title and subtitle will reflect contents of my book

One of the funniest branding choices for academic books is the title that makes it sound like a really broad comparative study while the actual book is the narrowest possible case study

@SidelockHolmes just thought of a new guy. "The Guy who carefully tracks who provoked whom at 2014 Israeli-Palestinian clashes, for future reference" Oh how i hate him

@gershon_JP The one incident doesn't really matter, meaning what exactly?

This is actually correct. Obviously the one incident doesn't really matter, but you can see her grab his prayerbook at the beginning of this clip: youtube.com/watch?v=2S7uZA…

@anadoluagency @LibyaLiberty

The photo is by Salih Zeki Fazlioglu for @anadoluagency. Original article here, describing how "A Jewish settler attempted to head-butt a Palestinian woman as he exited the complex through the same gate". aa.com.tr/en/world/jewis…

Happy Passover, everybody! ❤️

@MyShtender Do you know anything about this? Does more of it survive somewhere?

and now, see (in English) by Aviad Hacohen and Menachem Butler, “‘And How Can One Behold a Sefer Torah in Distress?’ On the Relationship between Rabbi Chaim Heller and Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik,” at The Seforim Blog seforimblog.com/2026/04/and-ho…

Today, on the erev of Passover, is the 66th yahrzeit of Rav Chaim Heller. In his memory, Prof. Aviad Hacohen and I have published a nearly 3,000-word profile in @MakorRishon on his deep friendship with Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, including remarkable previously unpublished letters in which The Rav urgently appealed for financial support on behalf of Rav Chaim Heller. An expanded 10,000-word English version (with full documentation) will appear today at *The Seforim Blog*. See Aviad Hacohen and Menachem Butler, “‘A Sefer Torah in Distress’,” *Makor Rishon, Pesach Supplement, no. 1495* (1 April 2026): 10-11, 16 (Hebrew), available here (academia.edu/165430597).