Though the Hanukkah story culminates in Jerusalem with the rededication of the Jewish temple, it’s in hedonistic Tel Aviv where one can find the biggest homage to the winter holiday — in the form of an unusual street grid. The streets of the south Tel Aviv neighborhood Neve Sha’anan are laid out around a grid…
On the way home from the funeral, we discussed Amalek. It was Purim time, 1996. Israel was living through one of its worst spates of terrorism in years. Two students, Matt Eisenfeld and Sarah Duker, boarded a bus together and were killed, along with 24 other people. Matt was my friend. He and Sara were…
WASHINGTON — Members of Shimon Peres’ family will light candles at President Barack Obama’s final Hanukkah party using a family heirloom menorah. Chemi Peres, the late Israeli president’s son, and Mika Almog, his granddaughter, will light the candles at the party Wednesday evening, more than a week before the start of the holiday, according to…
(JTA) — Each year in Brooklyn, Chabad Rabbi Shimon Hecht ascends 33 and a half feet to light the tallest menorah in the world. But he’s not allowed to call it that anymore. By decree of a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical court, Hecht must cede the title of “World’s Largest Menorah” to another candelabra, this one also erected…
A menorah outside the Chabad house at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was vandalized for the third time in 10 months. The vandalism took place early Sunday morning outside the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, a surveillance video released by the University of Illinois Police Department shows, the Daily Illini student newspaper reported. The…
New York City cops have reportedly arrested a 14-year-old boy for knocking over a 100-pound menorah at Carl Schurz park, two blocks from the mayor’s Gracie Mansion home. Police charged the teen with two counts of criminal mischief and a hate crime, The teen was arrested Friday evening by the Hate Crimes Task Force after…
Government officials in the heavily Orthodox town of Lakewood, New Jersey removed a Hanukkah menorah from the town square while allowing a Christmas tree to remain. The decision to remove the menorah, which the township has displayed alongside a Christmas tree for decades, came after a resident threatened to sue, The Associated Press reported, citing…
The chief rabbi of the Netherlands lit what he said is Europe’s largest kosher menorah, which was built for the Jewish community by Zionist Christians. Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs lit the second candle of Hanukkah on menorah opposite town hall in the southern city of Maastricht on Tuesday, he wrote in a blog post for the…
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