Jewish and Israeli Holidays
“The Torah takes the rhetorical thunder of our oppressors and throws it back in their faces to tell God’s own truth,” says Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman.
The matzah is 6 meters long and weighs 6 kilograms, and took 20 people three hours to bake.
NATAN, which has stationed doctors and social workers on the Polish-Ukraine border to aid refugees since the war started, is organizing the “Passover in Przemyśl.”
Due to inflation and the overall increased need, the organization is aiming to raise $2.5 million in emergency funds this holiday season.
“Friends, fellow ambassadors … the question we must all ask ourselves is: Are we doing enough? We must ask this every day till the bloodshed stops,” said Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan.
Since most people will not be able to leave their homes, Chabad-Lubavitch’s Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine has prepared more than 50,000 seder kits complete with shmurah matzah, grape juice, bitter herbs and Haggadahs.
Jeffrey Yoskowitz and Liz Alpern say making the dish is a dying art, and they are hoping to jump-start a revival.
The Supreme Court ruled that the state has the right to destroy six structures built illegally in the area around the gravesite.
A film recounting a tale of African bondage and freedom, told through modern-day social media, becomes the focal point for a U.N.-sponsored event to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Alone on a snowy Friday night, the sophomore made dinner for 15 of her teammates—“all the classics … cholent, deli rolls, schnitzel, challah. It was really special how interested they were.”
Roughly 70,000 boxes were ordered; the packages will be sent to Hungary and then transferred to Ukraine.
Edwin Tong, Singapore’s minister for culture, community and youth, says he relished the “opportunity to learn and understand the core tenets underlying the many diverse cultures and faiths around us.”
