In the old days, it was offering sub-par animal korbanos. Nowadays, it’s offering rote prayer devoid of any רוּחָנִיּוּת אוֹ דְּבֵקוּת

When they say Rome is descended from Eisav, they mean his grandson צְפוֹ was the first King of Rome, not that the Romans are biological descendants of Jacob's brother

The Nova Massacre, the "Gaza Envelope" and נַחַל גְּרָר. Freaky!

Whose biography I did yesterday. The sefer is the famous קָרְבַּן אַהֲרֹן עַל הַתּוֹרֹת כֹּהֲנִים עִם הַהַגָּהוֹת שֶׁל הַגָּאוֹן בְּצַלְאֵל רְנַשְׁבּוֹרְג וְתַלְמִידוֹ הַגָּאוֹן שְׁמוּאֵל פְרוֹיְנְד רֹאשׁ ב"ד פְּרָאג

"Status-Quo" in Hungary, then Orthodox in Prague, then Very-Orthodox (nusach SR Hirsch) in Hamburg

Successor to great rabbis, but lived in an era when learning was unfashionable

Montefiore went to see Czar Nicholas I to try to get him to ease up on the antisemitic גְּזֵרוֹת. This letter is to Amschel Mayer Rothschild of Frankfurt, one of the big backer$ of the famous Samson Raphael Hirsch

Compare and contrast Abraham and David (in this week's parsha and haftorah) in how they prepared for the future after they passed away