admin | December 4, 2021
To: Rabbi M. SerfatyRabbi, The Portuguese-Spanish Synagogue, Amsterdam30.11.2021 Rabbi Serfaty, Shalom.Yesterday I was overwhelmed by the emails I received showing me the letter from the 28th of November that you sent to Professor Yitzchak Melamed in the USA.
admin | December 4, 2021
This piece originally ran on TC Jewfolk. On the third day of Hanukkah, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v
admin | December 4, 2021
(RNS) Lets call it Facebook Theology. Over the past year, I have noticed an interesting trend on social media. A religious holiday comes, and people will post appropriate photographs and graphics, and offer the following greeting: Happy (name of holiday) to those who celebrate
admin | December 4, 2021
(The Conversation) The eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah commemorates ancient Jews victory over the powerful Seleucid empire, which ruled much of the Middle East from the third century B.C.
admin | December 4, 2021
A forest fire, racing up a mountain. A tortoise, deep inside the earth. A dark sea, rough on the surface and still beneath it.
admin | December 4, 2021
Corporations and plenty of everyday people treat Hanukkah as Jewish Christmas. It has a nice little story about miraculous oil, plus you decorate your house and give gifts
admin | December 4, 2021
At 320 years old, Bevis Marks in London is the oldest continually functioning synagogue in Europe. So it is perhaps unsurprising that recent plans to erect two (very tall) skyscrapers overshadowing the building have led to angry opposition
admin | December 4, 2021
A Lebanese-born Muslim man was reportedly investigated by the FBI and Homeland Security after posing as a Hasidic Jew to marry a Brooklyn girl while claiming to be a US spy to protect his wild ruse.
admin | December 4, 2021
(New York Jewish week via JTA) Moshe Feldman, a beloved doctor in Crown Heights who for years tended to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the leader of the Lubavitch Hasidic movement, has died at 80. Feldman was a pediatric specialist who practiced medicine for nearly 50 years in the Bronx and later in Crown Heights
admin | December 4, 2021
Two leading Jewish hip-hop artists have adapted Adam Sandlers 1995 breakout hit, The Chanukah Song, for the present moment. Nissim Black and Kosha Dillz dropped the video for The Hanukkah Song 2.0 just before the holiday began on Sunday evening. It features the musicians galavanting around New York City, riding the subway and hobnobbing with sidewalk vendors in Times Square.
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