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What is so special about Chanukah? Why has it become such a central holiday to our national culture? It’s not the latkes or doughnuts. On Chanukah we celebrate the time that we, Am Yisrael, chose Hashem en masse. It was the harder choice by…

In this episode, kisses and rejections, drashes and derisions at Isaac Luria’s seder.

The Eternal Jew’s Tale
A Pesakh Montage, The Crystal Haggadah
Midrashbase

Lurianic Seder Midrashim, Tsfat, 1570 CE

Now here presented is a summary of the…

Better late than never.

This aphorism applies to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

As he now admits, just a few days after two Muslim terrorists killed 15 people at a Chanukah celebration at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach, his…

These polls should be printed in the comics section

In all the years I’ve been in Israel, I never read anyone who trashed the polls here like I have already done more than a dozen times. Am I mistaken? Is anyone paying attention? Does…

Some individuals have indicated that it is poor timing to advocate against the death penalty in the wake of the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre. L’chaim members feel otherwise. On the contrary, there is no more appropriate time than now to…