Thursday Night, the Fifth night of Chanukah, Jew in the City blogger Allison Josephs hosted a Chanukah Party in Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattans Upper East Side. The party featured the launch of “Top 10 Orthodox Jewish All Stars” video.
NEW YORK, NY — ElAl’s Unity Sefer Torah, which began in the Rebbes Room and has been traveling around the world, made a stop in the United Nations General Assembly hall in New York City on the third night of Chanukah.
Senator Daniel Inouye, the Senate’s most senior member, one of its most influential legislators, staunch supporter of Israel and steadfast friend of the Jewish people passed away Tuesday in Washington, D.C. at the age of 88.
LAZ PAZ, Boliva — A Bolivian judge on Tuesday released a New York businessman and granted him house arrest after he was jailed for 18 months without charge despite strong evidence that he was fleeced and extorted by corrupt prosecutors.
The Military court of Samaria on Sunday sentenced a Palestinian man on charges of aiding and abetting two other Palestinians who murdered five members of the Fogel family last year in their home in Itamar.
Britain’s United Synagogue has announced that Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis will replace Lord Jonathan Sacks in the role of Commonwealth Chief Rabbi upon the latter’s upcoming retirement according to the Jewish Chronicle.
Worldwide Jewry have come together following New York City’s assault on Mitzvas Milah – particularly metzitzah b’peh. Today, Zos Chanukah, has been declared as a day of mass prayer for the success of an action brought against the city in federal court.
Following the grand opening of its Jewish community center, the Smolensk Jewish Community led by Rabbi Levi Yitschok Mondshine, Chief Rabbi of Smolensk and the Smolensk region, celebrated the opening of the city’s first ever kosher store on the premises of the new center.
This week, families around the world will gather to light menorahs and commemorate the festival of Hanukkah. In New York City, David Moore’s family will be lighting 120 of them. That translates into some 5,000 candles over the eight-night holiday.
Today, Thursday December 13th, Hillel day school of North Miami Beach had a beautiful Chanukah lighting ceremony. There were over 1500 students and staff at the event.
Three years ago CrownHeights.info featured a ‘unique and smelly menorah’ created by a Darchai Menachem student, this year it was featured on the Huffington Post as part of an article titled “25 Hilariously Wrong Menorahs”.
Israeli and Jewish officials in Denmark are urging local Jews not to wear identifying religious in public, due troubling rise in anti-Semitic incidents. This comes during the holiday of Chanukah whose main premise is to spread the light and message.
Forget the War On xmas, a building on the East Side has become ground zero for the War On Hanukkah. The board of 2 Beekman Pl. has refused a resident’s pleas for a menorah in the lobby to accompany the co-op’s elegant nine-foot tree.
A Brooklyn orthodox rabbi who was jailed after refusing to answer questions before a federal grand jury, saying his religion forbid him from testifying against other Jews, was ordered freed this week by a district court judge in Los Angeles, the rabbi’s attorney said.
Religious circumcision is again legal in Germany after the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of Parliament, passed the final version of a circumcision bill today by a vote of 438 to 100. The upper house of Parliament passed the draft law in October, and the final vote means the right to religious circumcision is now guaranteed. A court in Cologne previously ruled it a criminal act.
BROOKLYN, NY — This winter, during a new semester of the Center for Kosher Culinary Arts professional program, an all-women’s evening section will be offered, in addition to an all-men’s evening section, and a co-educational daytime program.
On the first day of Chanukah, an historic event took place which will forever change the landscape of Boro Park as the famed 13th Avenue acquired a co-name “Raoul Wallenberg Way” honoring the great humanitarian, who saved more than 100,000 Hungarian Jews from the Nazis during World War II.
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