“Im b’chukosai teilechu v’es mitzvosai tishmeru – If you will follow My decrees and observe My commandments …” (Vayikra 26:3) Rabbi Chaim ben Attar, known as the Ohr HaChaim (1696-1743), authored the ...

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 ...

A group of Jews who visited the tomb of the Rabbi Chaim Ben Attar, known as the Ohr Hachaim, was attacked by dozens of Arabs, who attempted to “lynch” some of the Jewish visitors. Sunday was the ...

When Brit Yosef Yitzchak commemorated the bris of Ben Bohbot at Hollywood’s Ohr HaChaim Synagogue on Feb. 18, it also celebrated its 32,000th free circumcision since it started in 1989. Rabbi Yaron ...