Speaking at a press conference, will.i.am said, “I’m a musician and a tech enthusiast and people like our music. Do I turn my back on people that live here because of politics? No, that’s not the way we were built.
It was Sunday evening, the first night of Hanukkah, and Israel’s President, formerly the head of the Labor movement, decided to pay a visit to our forefathers, in the city of Hebron.
On the first day of Hanukkah in that Gorky prison, a miracle seemed to happen.
Smuggled diaries remain one of the most valuable eyewitness accounts of the fate of the Jews in the Nazi era.
It turns out that being a rabbi was in her blood. Her grandfather went to rabbinical school, her uncle was a rabbi and her cousins were all ordained.
In “A Tale of Two Menorahs,” Agnon tells the story about the strange year when the Hanukkah menorah in the Buczacz synagogue mysteriously disappeared.
Long before I had ever heard of Luke Skywalker or Captain America, I knew all about Judah Maccabee. For a young Jewish boy growing up in late 20th century America, the Maccabees were the same type of heroic role models that the Avengers and the crew of the Millennium Falcon later came to be.
What is it about Israeli soldiers that drives my mother crazy in the best possible way?
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