Hanukkah, la festividad judía donde se encienden velas durante ocho días, comienza este año el día de Navidad, lo cual solo ha ocurrido cuatro veces desde 1900. El rabino Peter Tarlow, director ejecutivo del Centro para las Relaciones Latino-Judías, con sede en Houston, informó que el primer evento de Chicanukah, hace 12 años, atrajo a 20 personas, mientras que este …
Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day, which has only happened four times since 1900. “This can be a profound opportunity for learning and collaboration and togetherness,” said Rabbi Josh Stanton, a vice president of the Jewish Federations of North America. The doughnut-like pastries were sufganiyot — a Hanukkah specialty — and buñuelos, And the …
Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day, only the fourth time that’s happened since 1900. “This can be a profound opportunity for learning and collaboration and togetherness,” said Rabbi Josh Stanton, a vice president of the Jewish Federations of North America. The doughnut-like pastries were sufganiyot — a Hanukkah specialty — and buñuelos, And the …
Three people have been indicted on hate crimes charges in connection with red paint that was smeared on the homes of Brooklyn Museum officials during a wave of pro-Palestinian protests this summer. The charges include making a terroristic threat as a hate crime, criminal mischief as a hate crime, making graffiti, possession of graffiti instruments and conspiracy.
NEW YORK — A New York City journalist was arrested Tuesday on charges that he accompanied a group of pro-Palestinian protesters as they hurled red paint at the homes of top leaders at the Brooklyn Museum earlier this summer. A banner hung at the home of the museum’s Jewish president called her a “white-supremacist Zionist.” Seligson’s attorney, Leena Widdi, said …
News of a brawl between police and worshippers on Monday over a secret underground tunnel found connected to a historic Brooklyn synagogue was picked up quickly on social media, with posts spreading baseless claims about the passage, many laced with antisemitism. The conflict at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in New York City, which serves as the center of an …
Other public-lighting ceremonies are set in Paris at the Eiffel Tower and a towering menorah display in London's Trafalgar Square A menorah lighting ceremony is set to take place Thursday as organizers and Jewish leaders light the 'World's Largest Menorah' - in midtown New York City As Jewish people mark the start of Chanukah with menorah lightings taking place across …
