admin | December 27, 2019
BSD On the second night of Chanukah my wife and I visited our son Dovis family to play dreidel. Its a long-standing family tradition that goes back many years from the time we were married in Johannesburg to play dreidel with all of our children and grandchildren
admin | December 27, 2019
The bad news is that hostility towards Jews as Jews, otherwise known as antisemitism, exists. The good news is that there are attempts made, at highest places, to combat it.
admin | December 27, 2019
As the December 11 deadline approached for the Knesset to come up with a candidate to form a government with the backing of 61 MKs, it appeared that a fresh election early next year was almost inevitable.The election that no one wanted, Israels third in a year, will likely take place on March 2.President Reuven Rivlin granted the Knesset 21 days to come up with a consensus candidate after both Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz had failed to cobble together a working coalition, after being granted the mandate following the deadlocked election in September.But the Knesset failed to find such a candidate.
admin | December 26, 2019
Photo Credit: unsplash {Originally posted to the JNS website} Some messages are simply too important to ignore. One such message, I believe, emerges from two words in the Talmuds short discussion of the Hanukkah festival.
admin | December 26, 2019
This week as we celebrate Chanukah, a post-Torah holiday, we also study Parashat Miketz. Of course, we remember the story from the Talmud (Shabbat 21b), when the Greeks entered the Temple, they defiled all the oils therein, and when the Hasmonean dynasty prevailed against and defeated them, they made search and found only one cruse of oil which lay with the seal of the High Priest, but which contained sufficient [fuel] for one days lighting only; yet a miracle was wrought therein and they lit [the lamp] therewith for eight days. The fear was that the oil would only sustain the flame for one day; miraculously, it burned for eight.
admin | December 26, 2019
The Orthodox Jewish community of Gateshead, England, is thriving in sharp contrast to many British communities, thanks to outstanding Jewish education, a dynamic New York rabbi and cheap housing. Like most northern English cities, Gateshead, located on the River Tyne, has struggled since the 1980s with the loss of the manufacturing industries that once made the region Britain's economic powerhouse. But whereas in most northern towns formerly vibrant Jewish communities drifted away along with the jobs and economic prospects, leaving a wasteland of deprivation, Gateshead is reversing that trend.
admin | December 26, 2019
Alvin Reinstein of Teaneck and his son, Sam, made history several years ago as the first father-son pair ever to study simultaneously for rabbinic ordination in the history of Yeshiva Universitys Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Now they have a new collaboration.
admin | December 26, 2019
After that, I will pour out My spirit on all flesh; Your sons and daughters shall prophesy; Your old men shall dream dreams, And your young men shall see visions. Joel 3:1 (The Israel Bible) (Photo: GraphicStock) The signs clearly say, as so many rabbis and experts have confirmed, that we are living in prophetic times preceding the messiah. Indeed, many extraordinary events signal the miraculous times in which we are living.Breaking Israel Newslooks back on these prophetic moments and suggests five further prophecies that could be fulfilled in 2020.
admin | December 26, 2019
Are we celebrating Hanukkah or Chanukah this week? Neither the English language nor American Jews would seem to have decided which way to spell the word.
admin | December 26, 2019
Many modern-day Jewish-Latinos are descended from families who fled Europe to evade persecution for their religious practices and beliefs, largely of Sephardic and Ashkenazi origin. While many of their traditions were lost or suppressed for fear of attracting danger in their new homelands across the sea, Jews thrive today in cities across Latin America
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