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Six13, a New York-based male a cappella group that entertained at the White House’s Chanukah party last week, performed for an hour as the centerpiece of the JCC’s Community Chanukah Celebration. The event, held in the Uptown JCC, 5342 St. Charles Avenue, occurred over a very rainy and chilly Sunday Dec. 18 afternoon, in contrast to the warm and festive feeling inside the Mintz Auditorium.
A group of more than...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s health minister called on the public to refrain from eating the traditional Chanukah treat sufganiyot.
“I call on the public to avoid eating sufganiyot, which are rich in fats,” Yaakov Litzman of the haredi Orthodox United Torah Judaism party said Sunday during a conference to promote healthy eating, Ynet reported. “You can find alternatives for everything nowadays and there is no need for us to fatten...
By RAFAEL MEDOFF
(JNS.org) — WASHINGTON—The decision by eight Jewish organizations to boycott an event sponsored by the Muslim government of Azerbaijan could harm Muslim-Jewish relations, critics are warning.
The eight left-of-center groups, which are among the more than 50 members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, announced they will not participate in a Dec. 14 pre-Chanukah celebration in Washington, DC, co-sponsored by the Embassy of...
By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Reuven Rivlin toddles up the White House driveway. He is grinning as he shouts in Hebrew to a phalanx of local Israeli reporters shivering in the December chill: “If you must live in a Diaspora, live in this one!”
Washington’s Chanukah week has found an unlikely Santa Claus in Israel’s president: His workshop, where the real work is done, is far away in Jerusalem,...
Listen Up!, a Jewish a cappella four-person group specializing in their own interpretations of popular and Israeli songs, were the headliners at the Jewish Community Center’s Chanukah Community Celebration today from 4:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Listen Up! had a viral YouTube video last year in which they sang a version of “Adon Olam” to the tune of Pharrell’s “Happy” from Universal Studio’s “Despicable Me 2.”
Part of the Cathy and...
Chef Zach Engel of Shaya used his recipe for latkes with onions pickled in vinegar and green tahini sauce to capture the Latkes Cook-Off on Wednesday night at the Chabad House on Freret Street.
Engel eclipsed Chef Lee Sands of the Audubon Tea Room with his ginger latkes recipe and Chef Will Baron from the Palms Restaurant and the Boot with his traditional latkes.
Emcee for the event was Dena...
Chabad Lubavitch of Louisiana held its annual Chanukah at the Riverwalk event on December 6 with music and a laser video show to the delight of the approximate 200 people assembled there.
Benny Naghi, the owner of Mardi Gras Zone and one of the sponsors for the event, held center stage as he climbed aboard a ladder to light the largest menorah in the state on the first night of...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — About 100 women gathered at the Western Wall to light Chanukah candles.
Security guards permitted 20 women to enter with their menorahs, but then attempted to ban and confiscate a large communal one being brought in by the Women of the Wall organization.
Knesset member Ksenia Svetlova of the Zionist Union party used her parliamentary immunity to bring the communal menorah in to the site on Sunday...
(JTA) — A large menorah was found vandalized on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Police found the menorah on its side with one half broken into pieces Monday morning at Carl Shurz Park on 86th Street and East End Avenue, two blocks from the mayor’s official residence at Gracie Mansion. They believe it had been toppled over on both Saturday and Sunday nights.
“Incidents like this have no place...
Chabad Lubavitch of Louisiana will pull out all the stops and present its annual showcase intended to create excitement about the Chanukah holiday today, December 6.
“Chanukah at the Riverwalk” gets underway at 4:30 p.m. at the Spanish Plaza area adjacent to the Outlet Collection at Riverwalk at the foot of Canal Street. Festivities are set to last until 6:30 p.m.
The community-wide event will feature the lighting of...
