Rabbi Jehoshua Osher Rabinowicz, the “Borisower rebbe,” died today at the age of 70. He was a member of the oldest dynasties in Poland.
Uriel Acosta, a free-thinker who had been brought up as a Catholic, committed suicide in 1640.
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