Man(na) melts and disappears. Candles melt and disappear. Chocolate melts and gets all over the place. Hold those thoughts – if you can. Chanukah is a celebration of temporary successes. In the ...

Every year as I light the menorah in my window in Brooklyn, I am brought back to my childhood in Lexington, Kentucky. Our family always lit the menorah in the kitchen under the range hood for two ...

An explosive drone launched by Houthis in Yemen succeeded in penetrating Israel’s defensive shield on the first night of Hanukkah. The drone struck an open area near the southern coastal city of ...

In terms of military action taking out Iran’s nuclear development sites, Israel has clearly demonstrated that the sites are well within reach of Israeli air power – and certainly that of the Unite ...

In Jewish tradition, personal names can carry deep meaning, often connecting individuals to historical events or religious ideals. One such name – “Chanukah” – shines with the brilliance of the ...

There is a custom extant to gift money (gelt) to children on Chanukah for valid reasons, and perhaps that morphed into the present mania. But it’s still a legacy of our interactions with the ...

El Al airplanes parked at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel. The Israeli Sustainable Aviation Fuel Knowledge Center (iSAF) was inaugurated at the Technion, with support from the Ministry of ...

Israeli military forces have dismantled two more Hamas terrorist tunnels in southern and central Gaza. Soldiers belonging to the Southern Brigade have spent the past ...

Before Adam sinned, he looked nothing like you or I do today... The Midrash says that he wore kosnos ohr (skin of light). When you looked at Adam, you didn’t see his body but saw Adam himself, i.e., ...

This pathology in human herd mentality has been successfully exploited by Russian Communists, German Nazis and Arab Islamists over the past century, and has led to disastrous results, not least for th ...

In 1777, Hanukkah candles were lit during the Valley Forge encampment, the turning point of the Revolutionary War, which solidified the victory of George Washington’s Continental Army over the British ...

A 17-year-old Jerusalem teen was diagnosed Wednesday with the infantile paralysis strain of the polio virus, Israel’s Health Ministry confirmed at its virus laboratory. The teen was not vaccinated ...