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The Indianapolis Indians are hosting a Jewish Community Night on Tuesday night, featuring the honorary first pitch by Alex ...
Zohran Mamdani is defensive about his faith and has maintained that his culture is “not a costume.” Why then, New Yorkers ...
The rabbi, Cantor Jen Benray, and Cantorial Soloist Marjorie Hochberg served as his Beit Din (Hebrew for “house of judgment”) ...
Hillel of Metro Detroit announced Carolyn Klausner and Jacob Rond as the recipients of the 2025 Elaine C. Driker Award. The ...
Since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the ensuing war, some Jewish students have been vocal about support for Israel or for Palestinians. But many more have views that don’t fit into ‘either ...
Hanukkah celebrates that miracle with food, music, celebrations and the nightly lighting of the Hanukkiah, which has eight candles, as opposed to the typical seven-tiered menorah, and a ninth in ...
Hanukkah began Wednesday night and lasts until Jan. 2. For the second evening of Hanukkah , two candles and the shamash, known as the helper candle in the middle of the Menorah, were lit.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there are 24 spellings for Hanukkah, during which Jews light candles on a menorah to celebrate the miracle of a one-day oil supply lasting eight after ...
WASHINGTON — For Washington, D.C. the start of Hanukkah also means the lighting of the 30-foot National Menorah on the Ellipse, in front of the White House. And as of Tuesday afternoon, there is ...
Ukraine’s Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky, lit candles with the country’s Chabad rabbis on Wednesday, marking the third wartime Hanukkah since Russia’s 2022 invasion.
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — December 25 is the first day of Hanukkah in 2024, and southeast Idaho’s Jewish community held a third annual Hanukkah celebration in Idaho Falls. A menorah was lit ...