The word “Hanukkah” means both dedication and education. The last day is called “Zot Hanukkah,” meaning “This is Hanukkah” and embodies the essence of the entire festival. It comes from the Torah reading on this day, referring to...
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah commemorates the heroic recapturing of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 139 BCE by the Maccabees, a group of Jewish warriors who fought the Greek King Antiochus’ brutal religious persecution of the Jews in Israel. Upon reclaiming...
A large crowd came together to express solidarity with Israel on Sunday, December 3, 2023, at the pier in Huntington Beach, California.It was a peaceful and moving “We Stand with Israel” ceremony. Community and religious leaders from various denominations came...
Seventy-six years ago this week, on November 29, 1947, the United Nations voted for the partition of Palestine and the creation of the independent Jewish state of Israel, acknowledging the rights of the Jewish people to sovereignty in their homeland. While the world...
The Israeli flag, was created by Jacob and Charles Askowith as the “flag of Judah” in 1891 and was displayed on July 20, 1891, in the hall of the B’nai Zion Educational Society in Boston, Massachusetts. Inspired by the Talit, Jewish prayer shawl, it...
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