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 ...

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., ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The IDF Rabbinate’s guidelines aim to answer many of the countless questions of Jewish law it has received in recent weeks regarding how to best fulfill the mitzvah of lighting Chanukah candles duri ...

The ubiquitous Israeli Hanukkah donut — sufgania — has taken on new meaning this year. For the Weiser family, whose 21-year-old son Roey fell in battle against hundreds of Hamas terrorists during ...

It is a metaphor for a world experiencing a severe meltdown of morals and rationality. A dangerous, combustible situation, spreading everywhere.

This reopening marks a significant step toward healing, resilience, and the continued preservation of Israel's rich natural heritage.