The Chofetz Chaim, Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaCohen, from Radin, was certainly one of the greatest Torah scholars of modern times. His unparalleled halakhic work, the “Mishna Berura,” is the considered the ...

The house of Israel, by Rabbi Israel Meir Kahan (Chofetz Chaim). Publication Committee for the Works of Rabbi Israel Meir Kahan of Radun. The public mention of the name of a man renowned and beloved ...

The famed “Chofetz Chaim”, venerated by orthodox Jews throughout the world as one of the thirty-six saints because of whose piety the Lord has not destroyed the world, died today in the village of ...

“If I close my factory on shabbat, I will lose 4000 rubles each time.” That was the reply given to the Chofetz Chaim by a Jewish factory owner in Chernikov in Northern Ukraine after the Chofetz Chaim ...

A movement “to perpetuate the memory of the saintly sage, the Rabbi Chofetz Chaim, by writing a communal Sefer Torah Scroll” was begun here at a meeting in the home of Hirsch Manischewitz, 300 Central ...

There is great concern in Polish Jewry over a report from Radin, that the venerable Gaon, the Baal Chofetz Chaim, Rabbi Israel Meir HaCohen of Radin, who is 91 years of age, is critically ill there ...

Despite the fact that tens of thousands of mourners crowded into the little town where the “Chofetz Chaim”, world renowned rabbi and author of a score of books on the ethics of the Jewish religion, ...

HaRav Yisroel Meir HaCohen Kagan (1838-1933) from the small Polish town of Radin was one of the great Torah leaders of the past century. He authored many classic works, including the sefer by whose ...