Holiday Features
Readying 1,600 tons of honey
Anav Silverman, TPSSep 03, 2015
JERUSALEM Beekeepers from across Israel delivered their honey products to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin this week in light of a festive event held at the...
Rabbi saved a Jewish city in Greece
Anav Silverman, TPSApr 16, 2015
Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Memorial Day 5775 IN THE Jerusalem Hills, there stands the single largest memorial to the Holocaust in the world known as Martyrs Forest, which...
That’s the way the matzah crumbles
Gabe Friedman, JTAApr 01, 2015
PASSOVER EDITION 5775SECTION C PAGE 9 NEW YORK Seated in his Lower East Side office, in front of a large portrait of company patriarch Aron Streit, Alan Adler avoids...
When getting a little gelt was as good as gold
Edmon J. Rodman, JTADec 10, 2014
CHANUKAH EDITION SECTION E PAGE 8 LOS ANGELES What can a buck get you on Chanukah? Maybe a gold mesh bag of chocolate coins or a lighter for your […]
At Thanksgiving, looking out for the needy
Edmon J. Rodman, JTANov 20, 2014
AS WE prepare for our Thanksgiving feasts, a 90-year-old Jewish man named Arnold Abbott is stirring the pot in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., about hunger and homelessness in...
Is a lunar eclipse on Sukkot an ominous sign?
Edmon J. Rodman, JTAOct 06, 2014
LOS ANGELES As we usher in Sukkot, will there be a blood moon rising? John Hagee, the San Antonio pastor who wrote the book Four Blood Moons: Something is […]
Why fast on Yom Kippur?
Deborah Fineblum, JNSOct 02, 2014
By Deborah Fineblum, JNS HERUT Shitrid vividly recalls the first Yom Kippur she fasted. She was only 10, but somehow she was able to make it through the whole day....
Shofar makes house calls
Edmon J. Rodman, JTASep 19, 2014
ROSH HASHANAH EDITIONSECTION D PAGE 13 LOS ANGELES In preparation for the High Holidays last year, my community sent its shofar blower on the road. During the month...
The Sabbatical year
Ben Sales, JTASep 11, 2014
TEL AVIV When Rosh Hashanah comes later this month, Israels Jewish farmers wont just be celebrating the start of a new year. Theyll be marking a year in which...
Lag b’Omer…when I was a kid
Deborah Fineblum, JNSMay 15, 2014
By Deborah Fineblum, JNS ONE of Pnina Newirth’s earliest childhood memories is a trip to Mount Meron on Lag b’Omer. But this was no ordinary family...