Happy Chanukah
HAPPY (insert preferred spelling here)! 8 Days to spell it however you want, but the point is that we all spell ‘Happy’ the same.
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 1931“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
An unspeakable emotion lighting Chanukah candles with beloved Holocaust survivor Andor Stern. When I came across 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 to […]
Happy Chanukah from Dubai
Happy Chanukah from Toronto Source: Yescoffeenodecaf
Chanukah 1931 “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 […]
#mood chanukah sandcastles on the beach Source: Joseph Waks
#Sukkot in NYCSPOTTED: Lulav on the Brooklyn Bridge #ILulavNY Source: Bentzi Sasson
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 […]
Holocaust survivor Miriam Goldfarb z’l celebrating Sukkot last fall. Miriam was born in 1926 in Rostov-on-Don, a port city in southern Russia. She lived through the atrocities of the Holocaust and the oppression of communism, but she never lost faith in the Jewish community of Rostov. Miriam participated in every […]
Sukkah view of Jerusalem’s Old City #ShabbatShalom #ChagSameach Source: Sharon Gabay – Photographer
When the shofar is sounded at the end of Yom Kippur, the congregation responds aloud and in unison: “Next year in Jerusalem!”Wishing each of you an easy fast and meaningful Yom Kippur. Next year, may we be together again, next to each other, safely side by side without the need […]