Today we lit the menorah in the valley of death. A few days ago, 95 year old Isaac Abramovich told me that when he was a child, his grandfather Solomon would kindle the Menorah with him. But then he was killed by the Nazis at Zmiyovskaya Balka. And there was […]
Employees of Israel’s electric company gather to celebrate the festival of lights by making a human menorah! #HappyChanukah
An unspeakable emotion lighting Chanukah candles with beloved Holocaust survivor Andor Stern. When I came across that his arm that lit the candles was the same tattooed by Hitler, I realized that this is our revenge, we didn’t fight with tanks and guns, but rather, spreading light, love and kindness […]
This Menorah was rescued from the flames of the Holocaust. Its original home was the Great Synagogue in Katowicz, Poland. Commissioned in the early 1800s, the eagles at the top of the Menorah are the “Habsburg Eagles”, in gratitude for the protection the Habsburg Empire granted the Jewish community.Crafted and […]
It symbolizes how plans to destroy us were always ultimately foiled? Source: @dbashideas
The scent that lasts for 8 days.
Happy Chanukah from Toronto Source: @yescoffeenodecaf
#EmpireShamashHappy 2nd night of Chanukah from NYC Source: Jill Goltzer
Check out this cool ice menorah on the first night of Chanukah in Siberia #fireandice
Happy #Hanukkah from the New York Transit Museum! In this clever holiday card, created by local Brooklynite Cheryl Berkowitz, the heart of Downtown Brooklyn is transformed into the menorah.
HAPPY (insert preferred spelling here)! 8 Days to spell it however you want, but the point is that we all spell ‘Happy’ the same.
Chanukah 1932“It was on a Friday afternoon right before Shabbat that this photo was taken. My grandmother realized that this was a historic photo, and she wrote on the back of the photo that ‘their flag wishes to see the death of Judah, but Judah will always survive, and our […]
That’s a latke bagels! Check out this one-of-a-kind ‘bagel-norah’ from 2016, standing 10 feet tall with over 400 bagels, featured prominently at Bethesda Row’s outdoor mall. The bagels weren’t just for show, the builders of the menorah wore gloves with consideration that no food goes to waste and the menorah […]
#sorrynotsorry Unkosher Market
“Before the war, we had an old neighbor. Altman was his name,” Galina told me today.“ Each year as the weather worsened he would build a hut in our joined courtyard”. “I had no idea what the purpose was at the time. But he would get all excited once it […]
#ChagSameach Sukkah view of Jerusalem’s Old City Sukkot begins tonight at Sundown Source: The David Citadel Hotel
Succot is the festival of insecurity. It is the candid acknowledgment that there is no life without risk, yet we can face the future without fear when we know we are not alone. God is with us, in the rain that brings blessings to the earth, in the love that […]
SPOTTED: Sukkah on Fifth Avenue in front of the New York Public Library. Source: Chabad of Midtown Manhattan
Who else checks? #guilty#YomKippur begins today at sundown Source: Yidwithsign
#ShanaTova Source: Zoltan Kluger, Government Press Office
#ShanaTova Source: @alejandrobenzaquen
Praying for a year filled with blessings and good things for us all. Wishing everyone a very happy, healthy and sweet new year! #shanatova Ksiva vchasima tova shana tova umetuka
Leora and David Nissan in Purim costumes, Tehran 1964 (Persia)
Happy #Purim and Shabbat Shalom from New York
Oy! This past year has really aged the children Happy #Purim from Dallas! Source: Elizabeth Savetsky
#TuBishvat Did you know that Israel is 60% desert. But it has over 200 million trees. Israel is one of the only nations in the world that entered the 21st century with more trees than it had 100 years ago.Photo: Yuval Oz
Holocaust survivor Samuel Beller was born in 1927 in the Polish town of Oświęcim, also known as the location of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was in several slave labor camps, ghettos, and sent on a death march before being liberated by American troops. Samuel was the only member of […]
“Happy #Hanukkah from the New York Transit Museum! In this clever holiday card, created by local Brooklynite Cheryl Berkowitz, the heart of Downtown Brooklyn is transformed into the menorah.” Source: New York Transit Museum
Happy 6th Night of Chanukah from Hebron Source: @shalomberphotography
