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...
Celebrating an international love fe(a)st
A whopping 7,00 faces and hundreds of flags of every color painted Israel’s capital on Thursday, parading through the streets in the 2018 Jerusalem March.
The diverse participants, decked out on Sept. 27 in costumes...
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Los ijos de Sefarad (2)
Las Fiestas Judiyas
Asigun la tradsion judiya, es defendido de invokar el nombre del Todo Podorozo en vano. Es por esta razon ke se uza el nombre de Di-o en un mizmo biervo ma aunandoLo...
US Ambassador to Israel wishes Jews a happy Sukkot
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman wished the Jewish people a happy Sukkot holiday on Sunday, thanking an Israeli farm for allowing him to pluck his own etrog this year.
“To all those observing Sukkot, we wish...
Rabbi works to make Jewish life more accessible for deaf community
Let’s face it: Sitting through prayer services can feel long, arduous and not so interactive for worshippers. Congregants tend to talk with seatmates and neighbors to help pass the time.
But not at Rabbi Yehoshua...
In Israel, learning Torah has no age limit
Yosef Damsker, 86, is a thin man with a gray beard and a large yarmulke. But when he moved to Israel from Leningrad (today, St. Petersburg) in 1990, he was not only secular, he...
Sukkot… Faith
Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur have passed. Each of us would like something from those days could remain for the rest of the year, not lose their influence and ensure a true sweet year...
Sukkot: The harvest festival and arrival of autumn
We are twice blessed. Sukkot, the harvest festival—and sometimes called the “Jewish Thanksgiving”—takes place this year at the end of September, and two months later, Thanksgiving in America is a holiday that many Jewish...
A hop and a happy mess: Sukkot under the stars
For Yael Michaely, her husband Boaz and their three young children, feeling at home in their new country began in earnest one autumn evening in 2004.
For these Israelis recently transplanted to Newton, Mass., the...
Rosh Hashanah fuss-free food for the modern host
It started with a chance remark after a Shabbat dinner. “What a feast! You must have cooked for hours. How do you do it?”
I didn’t answer immediately. Working in my home office, I haven’t...