TODAY! Join us for a Community Commemoration of Yom Hashoah and Yom Hazikaron,...
WIZO and KEN JEWISH COMMUNITY Cordially invite you to join us for a Community Commemoration of Yom Hashoah in remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust and Yom Hazikaron in honor of Fallen Soldiers and Victims...
73 fun facts about Israel
Israel has the highest number of altruistic kidney donations per capita in the world: 1,005 in the past 11 years, and counting.
The oldest tree in Israel is a jujube tree in Ein Hatzeva...
Rosh Hashanah Greetings, Yiddish-Style
We no longer send many Rosh Hashanah greeting cards to each other. Once, in the days leading up to the holiday, the mailboxes were clogged with them. Now, if we send them at all—and...
Counting of the Omer
Counting of the Omer (Hebrew: ספירת העומר, Sefirat HaOmer, sometimes abbreviated as Sefira or the Omer) is an important verbal counting of each of the forty-nine days between the Jewish holidays of Passover and Shavuot as stated in the Hebrew Bible: Leviticus 23:15–16.
This mitzvah ("commandment") derives from the Torah commandment to count...
Ivanka Trump shakes lulav and etrog in the White House
Ivanka Trump. first daughter and advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, shook the lulav and etrog in the White House.
She was assisted by Rabbi Levi Shemtov, executive vice president of American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad), who brought the special four...
Madonna observes Jewish Temples’ destruction, Tisha B’Av
International superstar, Madonna is apparently observing Tisha B’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, on which a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred, primarily the destruction of both the First Temple by...
Majority of Jewish Israelis plan to fast on Yom Kippur, according to new poll
A special survey by the Israel Democracy Institute’s Guttman Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research in honor of Yom Kippur showed that 60.5 percent of Jewish Israelis plan to fast on the Jewish Day of...
Ivanka Trump Shares Pictures of Her Family Celebrating First Night of Hanukkah
Ivanka Trump shared pictures on Instagram of her family celebrating the first night of Hanukkah on Tuesday.
Trump — who converted to Judaism in 2009 — uploaded a photo of her and her husband Jared...
President Trump (and His Jewish Daughter and Son-in-Law) Skipped the White House Passover Seder
President Donald Trump did not attend the annual White House Passover Seder held on Monday night, a spokeswoman confirms to PEOPLE.
His daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, who are both Jewish, also skipped the event,...
Bohemian Channukah, an adaptation to Queen’s classic.
United by a strong Jewish identity and driven by the mission of connecting Jews from all over the world with their heritage through music, the a cappella professional group Six13 is the origin of...