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Hanukkah starts at sundown. Festival of lights is the antidote to antisemitism. | Opinion
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 6 months agoOn Sunday I attended a joyous celebration completing a new Torah scroll with Lubavitch of Wisconsin....
Jews’ Centuries-Old Arguments Over Chanukah Foreshadowed Their Arguments About Israel
Slate via Yahoo News· 6 months agoMany Jews this year are struggling with how to celebrate Chanukah—whether because our joy has been...
A refugee hid a box of coins in an Israeli cave 2,200 years ago. It was just found
Miami Herald via AOL· 1 year agoSome 2,200 years ago, ahead of the Maccabean revolt and impending war, a refugee fled to the Judean...
Rep. Jerry Nadler slams Benjamin Netanyahu as worst Jewish leader in 2,100 years
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 1 month agoNEW YORK — Rep. Jerry Nadler Friday derided Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu as the worst leader...
Better to light eight candles than to curse the darkness: Art Marmorstein
American News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn all likelihood, it wasn’t his birthday, but the 25th of December (the 25th of Kislev on the...
Is there connection between Hanukah and Christmas?
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 6 months agoLet me clear this up from the start: Christmas is not the Christian Hanukah, but there is a kind of connection. Both are connected to the Winter Solstice...
Our mission is to increase the light in the world
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 1 year agoChanukah confirms our faith that the light of knowledge and truth and the light of the human spirit within which links us to the Divine can never be...
Hanukkah's true meaning is about Jewish survival
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agowww.shutterstock.comEvery December Jews celebrate the eight-day festival of Hanukkah, perhaps the best-known and certainly the most visible Jewish...
Ancient coins unearthed in desert cave from time of Maccabean revolt
NBC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn ancient treasure trove of silver coins found in a desert cave in Israel could add new evidence to...