Deep in a dark tunnel under Gaza two years ago, a group of six Israeli hostages lit Hanukkah candles and sang the holiday ...
In the same vein, Ralph Melnick, in his article “Our Own Deeper Joy, Spiritual Resistance after the Holocaust,” testifies how ...
O’Clock News/Maoz Tzur.” On “7 O’Clock News/Silent Night,” as the news report gets louder and louder, Simon and Garfunkel ...
A group of Levites sang the final verse of 'Maoz Tzur' at Judaism's holiest site in memory of the victims of the horrific ...
Within the song “Maoz Tzur” is a prayer that history bends toward justice and that the moral order of the universe is not a fairy tale.The post Not just for ...
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Jewishness comes home to Jewish Studies: A modern-day Hanukkah story

After years of prioritizing academic detachment, Jewish Studies scholars are rediscovering the power – and necessity — of ...
Christian Zionists, who came on buses from across the Netherlands, accounted for a majority of participants. By Canaan Lidor, ...
Mendel Markel has released a new Chanukah dance album titled "Octoluminosity", including a 24 minute dance medley, featuring ...
Ma’oz Tzur insists that Jewish memory is not linear progress but recurring danger. That insistence matters after Bondi.
The shape of the menorah – and of the hanukkiah – teaches us that while we all may be diverse branches, we derive from a ...
The lesson of the Maccabees is not about resigning ourselves to our fate and hoping that God will protect us. It is about ...
Hanukkah (or Chanukah) is one of the world’s most widely celebrated Jewish festivals. The Bondi attacks’ timing on its first ...