The ancient Ethiopian Jewish holiday Sigd, now celebrated nationally in Israel, connects a community to its heritage and the ...

The shloshim event will take place, bez”h on Wednesday, Chof Vov Cheshvan, November 27, 8:15 pm, at Lefferts Shul Beis Eliyahu Nochum, 672 Lefferts Ave (side entrance). Featured speakers include Rabbi ...

4. Online School Reunion for the Nigri Shluchim Online School The annual Day Of Celebration for the Boys Division will be held on Wednesday, 26 Cheshvan (November 27). The program will be a joint ...

Yahrzeit of Rabbi David ibn Abi Zimra, known by the acronym of his name, Radbaz. Serving as the chief rabbi of Egypt, he later moved to Israel, where he taught Jewish mysticism to the Arizal, who ...

The yahrzeits of Israeli soldiers who fell in battle at the start of the IDF counter-assault against Hamas, a month or so ...

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Chabad Columbus recently took 40 members of the community to New York on Nov. 3 to visit the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s resting place, also known as the Ohel, in Cambria Heights in Queens. Rabbi Menachem ...

The Talmud (Megilla 3a) makes reference to the Bible translation composed by the Mishnaic sage Rabbi Yonatan ben Uziel, the most important disciple of Hillel (Succah 28a). The Talmud quotes a ...

The sport of bowling is about concentrating on the target, keeping one’s eyes on the pins through approach and delivery. No distractions, no outside noise. The less any external forces get inside your ...

I didn’t want him to fight less than at his best,” Rabbi Yoram Eliyahu said sadly, talking about his son Yedidya Hy”d whose first yahrzeit will be on the 19th of Cheshvan 5784.

On his yahrzeit, the 20th of Cheshvan, may these words (taken from ... Perhaps that is why Chinese civilization has survived for so long. Hebrew, however, is more hopeful still.

This week, thousands of Haredi Jews are making a pilgrimage to the gravesite of Rabbi Elazar Shach to mark the 23rd anniversary of his death on the 16th day of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan.