Martin Luther King Jr. Shabbat memorial to feature Jan. 15 talk by Lee Winkelman
SCHENECTADY–Congregation Gates of Heaven will host a “virtual” oneg in memory of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. featuring guest
Toasting to a new normal in 2021, L’Chaim!
By ETHEL G. HOFMAN (JNS) – After almost 10 months, who would have thought that we’d still be hunkering down and
Musing on the day: Why Christmas is the best day to be a Jew
By ALEX KIRSHNER NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – The Christians of my childhood tried hard to make me feel welcome around
Shabbat service for young children set for Jan. 1 by Temple Gates of Heaven
SCHENECTADY–Congregation Gates of Heaven’s Tot Shabbat services, for nursery through second-grade children, continue on Friday evenings on the first Friday of
First night of Chanukah marked in Delmar
The first night of Chanukah, Thursday evening, Dec. 10, brought several local dignitaries together with Bethlehm and Delmar Chabad at
What does a herring fish taste like via zoom? B’nai Sholom congregants find out
ALBANY–More than 50 congregants and friends of B’nai Sholom Reform Congregation in Albany recently logged on to “The Herring Project,”
The table used to stop Monsey attacker last year is turned into a menorah stand
By SHIRA HANAU NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – When a masked man entered a rabbi’s home in Monsey, on the seventh
Chanukah’s history poem is Ma’oz Tzur when translated from the Hebrew
By Rabbi RAYMOND APPLE Ma’oz Tzur is part of the tug of war between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. Both groups started
Yoram Ettinger: Chanukah Guide for the Perplexed 2020
By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” December 8, 2020, https://bit.ly/37Zs7bR More on Jewish holidays: Smashwords, Amazon Historical context. Chanukah,
An article about “saying goodbye” to Chanukah helps explain why Judaism is meaningless to assimilated Americans.
By JONATHAN S. TOBIN (JNS) – Why should anyone care that a woman who describes herself as “not Jewish” doesn’t think