Rabbi David Ebner zt”l, who passed away today in Jerusalem, was an educator who combined sensitivity, passion, poetry, and warmth with keen intellectual rigor and profound moral integrity. Read his 1992 contribution to TRADITION’s “Divided and Distinguished Worlds” symposium.

Yosie Levine’s “Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate” (Littman Library) is an engaging read, leavening impeccable scholarship with colorful anecdotes. Daniel Yolkut’s review shows the value in understanding the book’s subject in his Early Modern mercantile milieu, and praises Levine for championing the role of “rabbi-scholar.”