Unfortunately, there’s a very strong possibility that the good times of the last few years may be at an end, at least for a while. If The Crash Comes, Is Your Family Ready?
This year, on the first night, Mayor Eric Adams addressed the crowd at the World’s Largest Menorah, followed by Israel’s United Nations Ambassador Gilad Erdan who then recited the three blessings on the first light of the menorah and lit the first candle. They were hosted by Rabbi Shmuel M. Butman, director of Lubavitch Youth Organization and joined by real estate developer Rotem Rosen.
This past weekend, more than three hundred people gathered together in Queensland for a historic Shabbaton and Siyum Sefer Torah.
The world’s largest menorah, a New York City icon and one of the world’s premier public menorahs, was erected at its annual home early on Thursday, Dec. 15, and is set to brighten up the city once again when it is lit each night of Chanukah from December 18 to December 26.
On the streets of the “Greatest City on Earth,” and in countless cities across the globe, it is the public menorah which many have come to look to, to set the tone and the spirit of the holiday season. And this year’s “new light” will be a shining public art menorah installation commissioned by The Howard Hughes Corporation for the Seaport, a historic waterfront neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.
The newly funded project, called “MIDRASH – Migrations of Textual and Scribal Traditions via Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Medieval Manuscripts in Hebrew Script,” is the first ERC Synergy grant in Jewish studies and the first for computational manuscript studies.
Jewish teenagers from nineteen countries soaked in Jewish heritage sites, Jewish life, and just plain fun at CTeen International’s Shabbat Across Europe.
The ‘Old Synagogue’ on Kotsiubynsky Street, and the ‘Dobre’ JCC of Dnipro, Ukraine, has appointed a new rabbi to serve the thriving and developing community and to enhance its activity and participants: Rabbi Adam Smilyansky.
The Seaport will unveil a 15-foot nautical-themed menorah designed by conceptual artist Yitzchok Moully on the Heineken Riverdeck on the north side of Pier 17.
In a festive event, a new Torah scroll was brought into the city’s “Beit Menachem” synagogue. Taking place at minus 28 degrees Celsius, the inauguration of the new Torah scroll in Novosibirsk can easily enter the Guinness Book of Records for the coldest Torah inauguration ceremony in history.
Shabbos at the Besht: Rabbi Sholom Dovber Avtzon is a noted author on Lubavitch history and a local mechanech. He will be giving this weeks lecture on Tes and Yud Kislev and The Mitteler Rebbe.
Summer may be long gone, but participants of this year’s CTeen Summer trips are still basking in its warmth. It’s months later and tens of young men are still wrapping tefillin, dozens of young women recite the evening Shema and many utilize their afternoons to study Torah.
Chabad Houses worldwide are excited to give out a Chanukah magazine perfectly geared to Hebrew School kids.
A fascinating new serial novel released by the Moshiach Office at Merkos 302, in time for the Kinus, promises to be a thrilling journey for children and adults alike. Set in the times of Hakhel, “Last Act” follows Yossi of the modern era and Huda, Gershom, and Rivkah, children of long ago, on their adventures for a clear perspective and striking resonance of the mitzvah of Hakhel in its young readers.
It’s the morning after the election and results have mostly been tallied in races across the country. With the trends now visible, let’s take a dive into the results, and what they mean.
In 2019, an excavation led by Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists Dr. Uzi Ad and Dr. Anna Eirich uncovered an ancient pottery kiln in Motza, near Jerusalem. Broken clay oil lamps with fingerprints, were found scattered all around the kiln dated it to the Byzantine period, about 1500 years ago.
After rapidly tripling its program last summer to meet the tremendous demand, CTeen Summer has announced a new Moroccan track to their robust lineup of international trips.
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