Because Chanukah usually occurs in December, it is sometimes thought of as the "Jewish Christmas." It isn't, of course. But what's it's really all about?
The menorah engraving is a unique find dating back to the period between the Hasmonean era and the Bar-Kokhba revolt, when decorative use of this symbol was rare.
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman was among the 100,000 who attended the annual 'Birkat Kohanim' - Priestly Blessing - at the Western Wall in Jerusalem during Sukkot 2019.
As we pray at the Western Wall and gaze up at the Temple Mount, we cannot help but wonder why there is no Holy Temple today. Does it have anything to do with the slanderous report of the spies in the times of Moses?
Tisha b’Av commemorates a great number of calamities in Jewish history, but we focus primarily on the destruction of Jerusalem and the two Holy Temples.
Not just the Jewish People, but all people who long for global peace and harmony should hope and pray for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
We must remain grateful to the soldiers and all who have given their life for the State of Israel and to those who fight for freedom everywhere in the world.
It is little known that the Holy Temple in Jerusalem is alluded to in the Passover Haggadah, along with the lesson that it will be rebuilt when unity prevails.