Israeli-American Council to celebrate Tu B’Shevat with families, students nationwide
The Israeli-American Council (IAC) will put down new roots across America for a first-of-its-kind, national “Israeli-style” event this weekend marking Tu B’Shevat, also known as the “New Year for Trees.”
This mega-celebration of the holiday...
The Little-known Christian, Nebraskan roots of Tu B’Shvat
It’s a little-known quirk of timing and history that the transformation of Tu B’Shvat, which in 2017 fell on Feb. 11, from an obscure Kabbalistic holiday to its current incarnation can trace its origins...
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Reclaiming service: Planting the seeds of Jewish values
In our fast-paced interconnected world, it can be so hard to do a good deed in a truly selfless way. When we run a marathon for charity and post about it on social media...
March of Light concludes with chanukiah lighting
Story by Donald H. Harrison, Photos by Shor M. Masori
SAN DIEGO – Undeterred by last month’s massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, or by more recent anti-Semitic vandalism in Poway, more...
Tel Aviv-Yafo mayor lights Hanukkah menorah in renewed Dizengoff Square
Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo Ron Huldai inaugurated the renewed Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv by lighting the fourth Hanukkah candle of the central Chabad menorah with Rabbi Joseph Gerlitzky, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to the city...
Father of daughter killed in Parkland shooting lights White House menorah
WASHINGTON–Ten months after losing their daughter Meadow in the mass shooting at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Andrew Pollack and his family stood alongside U.S. President Donald Trump as he lit...
Netanyahu, Friedman light Hannukah menorah at Western Wall
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, along with Israeli soldiers, lit the menorah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Thursday to commemorate the fifth night of Hanukkah.
“There...
US President Donald Trump wishes the Jewish people a ‘Happy Hanukkah’
U.S. President Donald Trump released a statement wishing Jews a “blessed and happy Hanukkah” in honor of the first of eight lights lit on Sunday night.
“Melania and I send our warmest greetings to our...
Study of American, Israeli Jews shows differences in Hanukkah observance
A new study reveals that Hanukkah holds different levels of importance to Israeli Jews than American Jews, and highlights disparities in participation between Jews in the two countries.
According to the newest Jewish People Policy...
8 ways to celebrate Hanukkah that don’t involve gifts
Despite Hanukkah being one of the few Jewish holidays not mentioned in the Torah, it gets a lot of play—pun intended. Shmuel Arnold of Baltimore recalls how while growing up in a secular Jewish...