Jewish Holidays

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The Hanukkah story of "Chana” and her seven sons

Rabbi Dr. Martin Lockshin

Audio
Dec 3, 2023

Antiochus Epiphanes: From 1 Maccabees to Yishayahu and Haazinu

Professor Daniel Schwartz

Audio
Dec 3, 2023

The Torah Reading for Chanuka  - Why the Repetition?

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

Audio
Dec 3, 2023

How Many Chanukah Lights? The Development of Halakhic Practice in Light of Talmudic Interpretation, Science, Technology, and Society

Rabbi Benjamin Samuels

Audio
Dec 3, 2023

The Making of a Modern Maccabee

Yael Leibowitz

Audio
Dec 3, 2023

The Hanukkah Menorah: The Curious History of a Jewish Ritual Object

Professor Steven Fine

Audio
Dec 3, 2023

e-TiM: Chanukah Yom Iyyun

Yael Leibowitz, Rabbi Avrum Kowalsky, Rabbi Dr. Martin Lockshin and 7 more

Join us for a day of information, inspiration and illumination 9:15am to 2:30pm Eastern, 4:15pm to 9:30pm Israel time 9:15 am“Mehadrin” in the Hanukkah candles: Text, Halakha, and HistoryDr. Aaron KollerSponsored by Sandy Welkes in memory of her…
Program
Nov 22, 2023

The Haftarot of Tishrei: From Hannah’s Prayer to the Skin of the Leviathan by way of Rachel’s Tomb (Part 7) - The Leviathan Sukkah

Dr. Moshe Sokolow

Audio
Oct 3, 2023

Sukkot: The First Sin

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“And you shall take for yourselves on the first day, the fruit of the hadar tree, date palm fronds, a branch of a braided tree, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your G-d for seven days" (Vayikra 23:40). As the above…
Article
Sep 29, 2023

Parshat Shavua 5783 with weekly guest speaker (Sukkot)

Rabbi Steven Gotlib

Audio
Sep 28, 2023