admin | December 26, 2019
Photo Credit: unsplash {Originally posted to the JNS website} Some messages are simply too important to ignore. One such message, I believe, emerges from two words in the Talmuds short discussion of the Hanukkah festival.
admin | December 26, 2019
This week as we celebrate Chanukah, a post-Torah holiday, we also study Parashat Miketz. Of course, we remember the story from the Talmud (Shabbat 21b), when the Greeks entered the Temple, they defiled all the oils therein, and when the Hasmonean dynasty prevailed against and defeated them, they made search and found only one cruse of oil which lay with the seal of the High Priest, but which contained sufficient [fuel] for one days lighting only; yet a miracle was wrought therein and they lit [the lamp] therewith for eight days. The fear was that the oil would only sustain the flame for one day; miraculously, it burned for eight.
admin | December 26, 2019
The Orthodox Jewish community of Gateshead, England, is thriving in sharp contrast to many British communities, thanks to outstanding Jewish education, a dynamic New York rabbi and cheap housing. Like most northern English cities, Gateshead, located on the River Tyne, has struggled since the 1980s with the loss of the manufacturing industries that once made the region Britain's economic powerhouse. But whereas in most northern towns formerly vibrant Jewish communities drifted away along with the jobs and economic prospects, leaving a wasteland of deprivation, Gateshead is reversing that trend.
admin | December 26, 2019
Alvin Reinstein of Teaneck and his son, Sam, made history several years ago as the first father-son pair ever to study simultaneously for rabbinic ordination in the history of Yeshiva Universitys Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Now they have a new collaboration.
admin | December 26, 2019
After that, I will pour out My spirit on all flesh; Your sons and daughters shall prophesy; Your old men shall dream dreams, And your young men shall see visions. Joel 3:1 (The Israel Bible) (Photo: GraphicStock) The signs clearly say, as so many rabbis and experts have confirmed, that we are living in prophetic times preceding the messiah. Indeed, many extraordinary events signal the miraculous times in which we are living.Breaking Israel Newslooks back on these prophetic moments and suggests five further prophecies that could be fulfilled in 2020.
admin | December 23, 2019
Daniel Pinner Daniel Pinner is a veteran immigrant from England, a teacher and an electrician by profession; a Torah scholar who has been active in causes promoting Eretz Israel and Torat Israel. How many candles do we light on each of the nights of Hanukkah?
admin | December 23, 2019
Twenty-twenty is greater than the terminology of eye doctors. All of us can share in the blessing of 20/20 vision witnessing the light of Hanukkah
admin | December 23, 2019
1. The Maccabees Are the Heroes of Chanukah The Maccabees were Jewish fighters who led the revoltagainst the Syrian Greek ruling class, who had suppressed Jewish religion in aneffort to spread their Hellenistic customs and idolatrous beliefs.
admin | December 23, 2019
By Danya Ruttenberg / For The Washington Post Anti-Semitism is on the rise in America.
admin | December 23, 2019
Chanukah is generally presented as a commemoration of a landmark victory for religious freedom and human liberty in ancient times. Big mistake. Chanukahs greatest triumph is still to comethe victory of the human soul over artificial intelligence
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