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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The battalion commander, who had gotten engaged a few days earlier, had never celebrated the rite of passage.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"2,500 years later an enemy of the Jewish people arose in that land. He, too, wants to destroy and annihilate the seed of the Jews from the face of the earth."
By Max Gelber
“The majority of respondents shared that the conflict fostered a deeper connection to their faith and empathy toward Israel, leading them to purchase Israeli-made Judaica.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Secular protesters last year forcefully prevented traditional Jews from holding an outdoor Yom Kippur service.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Texas will always stand with the State of Israel and the Israeli people,” said Gov. Greg Abbott.
"Fasting during operational activity is prohibited; it is a life-threatening matter," says the Israeli Military Rabbinate.
The mountain has been especially targeted by Hezbollah rockets and drones due to a nearby military base.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Tens of thousands of Jewish worshippers participated in the semi-annual Birkat Kohanim at the Western Wall.
Netanyahu: “On this night, 133 of our dear brothers and sisters are not around the Seder table, and they are still held hostage by Hamas in hellish conditions.”
Hamas never delivered the medicine to the hostages either.
By COLlive.com
Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi: Harvard “would not allow us to leave the menorah here overnight, because there’s fear it’ll be vandalized.”
By COLlive.com
Tzach of Israel will also be distributing personal Menorahs and sufganiot (Hanukah donuts) to more than 10,000 Israeli soldiers currently deployed in Gaza.
By COLlive.com
During the visit, Chikli toured the etrog orchard of the Gorlik family, discovering the secrets of growing the unique fruit for Sukkot.
In 1863, the day of Shabbat, July 4, Independence Day, fell on the first day of the three weeks, Tammuz 17, but because it was Shabbat, as is the case this year, 2019, the fast was pushed off to Sunday.
By COLlive.com
“There’s something bittersweet about a Seder for someone on the road to recovery. After all, Passover celebrates liberation from captivity, something an individual in recovery longs to experience."
The obligation to bring the Korban Pesach is still in place today.
By COLlive.com
The Released Time program allow for public school students with parental permission to take time during regular school hours to receive religious instruction.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli prime minister planted an olive tree close to the synagogue where an Arab terrorist killed seven people last month.
By COLlive.com
A large crowd of people participated in the joyous celebration, even though it was snowing and freezing cold.
The most common name associated with Hanukkah is Or – 38,707.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Chanukiot have previously been lit in the White House, but this is the first time one has been included as part of an official display.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Wednesday night’s entrance took place on the occasion of the Sukkot holiday and to mark the Ushpizin day of Yosef HaTzadik.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The “Pouring of the Water” was an important feature of the festival of Sukkot during the times of the Temple.
Benjamin Netanyahu didn't feel well towards the end of Yom Kippur.
On the day after Rosh Hashana, Jews will be refraining from food and drink from dawn until sunset to commemorate the Fast of Gedaliah.
If visitors to Israel do bring their own, they will be taken away, and new ones will be provided that were grown in Israel, free of charge.
Due to their exceedingly delicate state, the Torah scrolls were only brought out for a few minutes to be filmed.
Just after 8:30 Sunday morning, an employee at a school on Shalom Sharabi Street in Petah Tikvah told one of his colleagues that he wasn’t feeling well. He sat down on a bench and keeled over. His colleagues, who all had taken a CPR course, called emergency services and proceeded to attach the school’s defibrillator […]
Netanyahu had a Jerusalem Day message.
"Volunteers have come from all over the country and are active around the clock to provide emergency medical care in Meron."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
There were about 130,000 revelers at Mt. Meron, instead of the usual 500,000.
By Alan Zeitlin
Roughly 70,000 boxes were ordered; the packages will be sent to Hungary and then transferred to Ukraine.
The Mishloach Manot consisted entirely of products made by various Jerusalem-based Olim businesses.
Representatives of KKL-JNF planted a tree in the educational campus, with the campus children and their parents.
"I know we're going to do a lot of great things together. Welcome back to Israel and best of luck, my friend."
The Netzach Yehuda Battalion’s Chanukah candle lighting ceremony Wednesday was held near Beit-El.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“On many occasions, we have to distribute other types of items related to Judaism, which the residents of these countries have no way of getting,” said Yad L’Achim president Rabbi Shmuel Lifschitz.
The organizers are ushering in a “sense of normalcy and joy” in bringing back holiday programming to communities all across Israel.
By Israel Hayom
Dave Grohl and producer Greg Kurstin team up for “The Hanukkah Sessions 2021,” in which they release a cover of a song by a Jewish artist each night of the holiday.
By Jewish Press Staff Reporter
"She was later taken by ambulance while still undergoing CPR, to the Carmel Medical Center."
Chabad Rabbi Levi Druchman lights the first candle of the menorah at EXPO 2020, in a ceremony attended by local leaders, businesspeople, Jewish residents of the UAE and tourists from around the world.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Herzog’s visit to Hebron is the first of many ceremonies he will be attending throughout the country in honor of the Chanukkah celebrations.
"Being part of this right before the holiday of Hanukkah gave me a lot of joy.”
These Thanksgiving dinners are part of Nefesh B’Nefesh’s return to in-person events, helping Olim acclimate.
This is a very significant historic discovery, as Scrolls of Esther inscribed during that time period by women are few, and it sheds light on the important position that religious women occupied in Italian Jewish community life.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The website also has a section where the company describes the eight-day Jewish holiday.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Many forget that the holiday, which begins a few days after Yom Kippur, also fell during the height of the fighting.
By 2007, KKl-JNF owned 13% of the total land in Israel.
On the day after Rosh Hashana, Jews will be refraining from food and drink from dawn until sunset to commemorate the Fast of Gedaliah.
"On Rosh Hashanah, Jewish communities around the world celebrate the world’s birth and commemorate the creation of humankind."
“Passersby, regardless of their religious affiliation, always congratulate us on Rosh Hashanah.”
On Av 10, 5765 the Ariel Sharon government uprooted thousands of Jews from the Gaza Strip.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Celebrations during the day include a reception at the President’s residence honoring 120 excelling IDF soldiers, the International Bible Contest and the Israel Prize ceremony in Jerusalem.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel has 9,327,000 citizens, more than 11 times its population of 806,000 at the time of the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948.
Even the animals in the zoo are celebrating Pesach, at the Ramat Gan Safari.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The special event, which is usually held only once on Passover and once on Sukkot, was held on both Monday and Tuesday this Passover.
“Each year we see that the number of emergency calls received by our organization rises dramatically over the holiday."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Why is this Passover different from all other Passovers?
"I feel so overjoyed at having saved this man’s life on Purim. It felt to me like I had won the lottery.”
By Ben Bresky
Purim has a unique status of celebrating two days of the Jewish holiday.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
"2,500 years ago another Persian tyrant tried to destroy the Jewish people and just as he failed then – you will fail today.”
According to experts, there are very few extant Esther scrolls from the medieval period in general, and from the fifteenth century in particular.
The program sends Modern Orthodox, Religious Zionist rabbis, and educators to serve in communal and educational leadership positions in Jewish communities around the world.
99% of the people reading this article may not realize the incredible importance of this year’s Tu B’Shvat.
At the inclusive kindergarten, children born with multiple disabilities and their non-disabled peers are integrated throughout their daily activities.
Herzliya Mayor Moshe Fadlon deserves a bunch of kudos for his municipality's all-out Chanukah celebrations.
No Kamala, Chanukah is not about Tikun Olam and McLightly Light.
By Chabad.org
Precautions would have to be taken and the event would be shorter than usual, but it would indeed take place.
By Israel Hayom
“Who would have believed that peace would come to our home in such a glorious way? It is a Hanukkah miracle,” says Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The occupation state ... is exploiting every opportunity, and particularly the so-called 'Jewish holidays,’ in order to commit crimes," says P.A. Supreme Sharia Judge Mahmoud al-Habbash.
“We knew we needed to think outside the box . . . so we introduced this party-on-wheels, a multimedia celebration of light and life.”
Called “Or Eitan” or “Share the Light,” the project allows Jews all over the world to upload photos of themselves lighting candles and wishing Happy Hanukkah to their family, friends and the entire Jewish people.
It has been suggested that the menorah may have been a motif related to the Temple and the priesthood that served in it during this time.
The sukkah was presented by Rabbi Levi Duchman, the rabbi of the local Jewish community in Dubai.
I can’t explain the feeling I had as I drove my ambucycle back home and walked into my living room to see my family still waiting for me.
They need a miracle. Meanwhile, they sing.
This video has everything a pandemic Rosh Hashanah project needs: cute babies and kids, apples and honey, shofars, spacesuits.
With synagogues offering more minyanim than ever before in order to accommodate social distancing thereby creating a shortage of qualified Baalei Tefillot, the OU has created a “Baal Tefillah Boot Camp” to help train more than 100 to lead these minyanim.
In the Sephardic tradition, recital of Selichot in preparation for the High Holidays begins on the second day of the Hebrew month of Elul.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to the heads of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties, the Israeli Health Ministry will announce the new directives by Wednesday.
Jerusalem Day began at sundown on Thursday, celebrating the liberation and reunification of Israel's eternal capital.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
At some point, violent rioting began, including the throwing of rocks and other objects at the police, as well as forceful resistance to the police’s instructions.to leave the scene.
After coming out of a month-long coma, Eli' beer's first question was, "When is Pesach?”
Six ambulances, two MICUs, a command vehicle and other designated emergency vehicles will be deployed in the field.
Pesach programs are now taking calls from customers who want a refund, and getting one is not always simple.
Beit Tsur was an ancient town on the road between Hebron and Jerusalem where the last Hasmonean battle took place before they vanquished the Greeks, liberated the Temple and purified it.
“On Sukkot, we pray that peace will be brought upon us. This is a great example of the kind of steps we are taking all year round."
12-year-old Roi Mori, who has perfect pitch and is diagnosed on the autistic spectrum, played two of his compositions on the piano during the event.
Along with the locally grown apples, Israelis will consume up to 25,000 tons of imported apples, mostly from Europe and the US.
In 1863, the day of Shabbat, July 4, Independence Day, fell on the first day of the three weeks, Tammuz 17, but because it was Shabbat, as is the case this year, 2019, the fast was pushed off to Sunday.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The ceremony paid special tribute to the victims of the synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh in October 2018 and Poway in April 2019.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel’s president and Knesset made the final preparations for the Passover Holiday, which will begin on Friday night, and sold their Chametz, leavened foods that are not kosher during Passover.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel urged Israeli consumers to begin buying fresh fruits grown in Israel for their celebrations, noting that dried fruits became traditional only due to the difficulty in successfully transporting fresh produce from Israel to places around the world.
Dancing and singing in Efrat in memory of Ari Fuld.
By JNi.Media
The sukkah was erected by a group of foreign office employees from various departments and diverse backgrounds, which is dedicated to promoting religion and faith.
By JNi.Media
In Arab Newspeak, every Jew is a settler and every Jew who visits the Temple Mount is, in fact, storming the Al-Aqsa mosque.
The Ministry said the consulate will deal with matters such as lost or stolen travel documents, and any other emergency assistance.
By JNi.Media
The crude marriage rate was 6.2 for every 1,000 Israelis, which is among the highest in the OECD countries.
By JNi.Media
Captain Rabbi Avrumi Levin: In case the Temple is rebuilt, consider this [Tisha B'Av] document null and void.
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