Eitam Henkin
By the time of his death at age 31, Rabbi Eitam Henkin had authored over 50 articles and three books. A graduate student at Tel Aviv University, he was renowned both for his halachic writings and for his mastery of the byways of the rabbinic world of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was murdered by a Hamas terrorist cell together with his wife, Na’ama, a graphic designer, in front of their four young children on Ḥol Ha-Moed Sukkot, 2015. Their deaths were a great loss to both the Torah and academic communities.
728 Years After His Death, We Reassess the Ransom of Rabbi Meir of RothenburgThe great German Talmudist and poet was one of the shining lights of 13th-century Ashkenaz before he was kidnapped and held for an exorbitant ransom that he famously directed his community not to pay. Did they disobey him after his death?
