Chanukah Celebrated By Lone Soldiers And Lone Bat Sherut (Photo Essay)
Chanukah is a popular time for family celebrations. Often a bit too loud with noisy children running around or sitting on the floor playing dreidel. Latkes frying to be served with applesauce or sour cream according to family tradition. Today, there are over 7,000 lone soldiers in Israel. A lone soldier who immigrated to Israel […]
Watch Rabbi Yonah Sklare on Chanukah: Radiate Your Beauty (Video)
Rabbi Yonah Sklare is a Rosh Kollel in Baltimore, MD as well as Magid Shiur at Congregation Shomrei Emunah. His refreshingly creative approach to learning as well as his captivating presentation style, have attracted a diverse and beloved following. He lectures at numerous local institutions, including Women’s Institute of Torah Seminary, as well as out […]
From Kfar Aza to the White House: The menorah delivered by President Herzog to US President Biden (Photos)
Ahead of the traditional Chanukah candle lighting ceremony held by the President of the United States at the White House, as a sign of friendship, President Isaac Herzog sent President of the United States Joe Biden a Menorah (Channukiah) belonging to the Hermesh family from Kibbutz Kfar Gaza – a menorah which survived the brutal […]
Families of 3 Magen David Adom Volunteers Murdered In Beeri Lit The Fourth Chanukah Candle at The Kotel (Photos)
US Ambassador to Israel Extends Unites State Chanukah Greeting to Israel This evening (Sunday), the lighting ceremony for the fourth night of Chanuka took place at the Western Wall, attended by the rabbi of the Western Wall and holy sites, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz; US Ambassador to Israel Jacob Lew; Health Minister Rabbi Uriel Busso; Western […]
Chanukah: Embracing Our Unique Cultural Identity
Chanukah is when we celebrate our existence as a nation separate from the non-Jews. A special nation with our own “culture”, the culture of the Torah and not of the secular world that surround us. Yaakov Kramer is a nursing home administrator in Greenwich, CT, an hour drive from his home in the vibrant Waterbury […]
Prime Minister Netanyahu: Unity in the Face of Challenges
Following are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks [translated from Hebrew] at the start of the Government meeting, today (Sunday, 10 December 2023): “At the start of the meeting, I would like to send condolences to our colleague Gadi Eisenkot and his family, which lost their son Gal and the nephew Maor. How great is the […]
It’s Chanukah At BJH & BJL! Decorate A Donut And Win Prizes / Spread The Light; Send Us Your Pictures/Videos To Be Featured
Baltimore, MD – Dec. 7, 2023 – It’s Chanukah At BJH & BJL! Submit a photo of your creatively decorated donut to the BJH and win prizes; thebjh.com/donut And spread the Chanukah light: send in your pictures/videos of events around town to be featured on BJL
Yeshivas Chanukah 5784
Baltimore, MD – Dec. 8, 2023 – Agudas Yisrael of Baltimore (Park Heights) invites you to learn in their בתי ×ž×“×¨×©×™× over ×—× ×•×›×”
Parshas Vayeishev – Crafty or Considerate?
When the brothers come to tell Yaakov that a tragedy has befallen Yosef, they present the bloody coat to him and Yehuda asks (37:32) “Haker na…”, do you recognize if this is your son’s coat? The gemara (Sotah 10b) says that just as Yehudah used this method of informing his father, the same method was used by […]
R' Ori Strum: Motiv8 Parshah Flyer to Print for Your Shabbos Table (Vayeishev/Chanukah 5784/2023)
