The Oil, the Wick and the Light Shabbat of Chanuka 2024 Rabbi Mordecai Finley   In the inner life dimension of the Jewish ...

OneTable, a North American nonprofit organization that empowers people in their 20s and 30s to envision new rituals and build ...

What makes Mikeitz so special? It always comes out the Shabbos of Hanukah! The Midrash oral commentary opens Mikeitz -meaning ...

What does it mean for Israel to be a Jewish country? Does it simply mean the population is primarily Jewish? I think it means ...

In honor of Hanukkah, Jewish singer Yaakov Shwekey and Israeli singer Shlomi Shabbat have released a duet singing "Haner Dolek" (the flame is burning) from the album "Guf v'Neshama." In ...

Games of dreidel and the consumption of potato latkes and jelly donuts might obscure the deeper meanings of Hanukkah that ...

“You don’t know me, but you spoke at Professor Thomas Meixner’s memorial service a couple months ago. I was going through my ...

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After a while I decided that I wanted formally to become Jewish. I was referred by the rabbi at the synagogue to a class for ...

This tension — to witness or to turn away — has defined my career. It blazed anew for me on Oct. 7, 2023, during the Hamas ...

The tables are overflowing with Shabbat classics served family-style, including challah, salads and chraime, or fish served in a spicy Moroccan sauce. Welcome to Mesiba’s new Friday night dinner ...