The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans is sponsoring an event to build a replica of the City of Jerusalem in Legos at Blessed Sacrament Parish (Joan of Arc Church), 8321 Burthe. Ages intended for the build are grades five...
Chanukah is also known as “The Festival of Lights” – while Purim is referred to as “The Feast of Lots.” While on Purim there is a specific obligation to feast, no such requirement of a...
The word “macabre” – meaning “disturbing, morbid, vividly evocative of death” – is associated historically with the danse macabre… an allegorical medieval morality play, depicting death personified (often as a skeleton) and his victims. Danse...
(JTA) — Chanukah may be considered a “minor holiday,” as rabbis will say, but its resonance and unique traditions offer a great window into Jewish communities around the world.
The Jewish Community Day School held its annual Chanukah extravaganza on Friday morning, December 14, 2022. All of the students took part in this year’s presentation, which was titled “Wax Warriors 5783, Chanukah Candle Boot Camp.”
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Chanukah, the winter holiday that commemorates the triumph of Judah Maccabee and the miracle of long-lasting oil, has plenty of heroes to celebrate. But in one Brooklyn family’s home, the...
(JTA) — The email landed like a batch of soggy latkes last week: Chanukah candle-lighting would not be permitted at the annual conference of the Association for Jewish Studies.
(JTA) — Years before they were a couple, Shelley Greenspan and Reuben Smith-Vaughan were just two Amazon employees wearing ugly Chanukah sweaters to a company holiday party.
Both were working in Amazon’s Washington, D.C., office in 2017...
Wisdom is the rarest of all important human qualities. Observers of the contemporary state of affairs often remark that wisdom, which is especially necessary in...
