| Fifty years after the first public menorah lighting, 15,000 public menorahs are being lit in the most extraordinary places. By Miriam Szokovski | | | | | | As the Jewish vernacular for centuries and the language of the Talmud, Aramaic significantly influences Jewish scholarship and culture. By Yehuda Altein | | | | | | Do you know your Judah facts? By Menachem Posner | | | | | | An underlying theme of Chanukah (and Chanukah gelt) is Jewish education. By Yehuda Shurpin | | | | | | Given its large size and striking design, the tomb should have been easy to locate. Yet, it seems to have been swallowed up by the sands of time. By Yehudis Litvak | | | | | | Many—although by no means all—of the public menorahs on display today feature straight branches extending diagonally from each side of a central shaft. This trend began in the 1980s, but it is rooted in a debate that might stretch back to the Middle Ages and beyond. By Chabad.org Staff | | | | | | Learn how to avoid potential yichud situations, keep your kosher kitchen intact, and make payments in the biblically mandated way. By Yehuda Shurpin | | | | |
| Ordinary People; Extraordinary Stories | | | A woman born without a uterus shares her inspiring journey of faith, love, and medical innovation, culminating in the miraculous birth of her daughter. Ariella Kamen in conversation with Chana Weisberg | | | | | | Read your life from the future backwards. By Tzvi Freeman | | | | | | The verse refers to "daughters," but did he actually have more than one? By Mordechai Rubin | | | | | | Five rabbis erected the first in 1974; now there are 15,000 lit annually By Dovid Margolin | | | | | | State's former governor shares words of support for Israel and Jewish people By Moshe New | | | | | | Died on 4th light of Chanukah, 45 years to the day since inaugurating National Menorah By Dovid Margolin, Yaakov Ort and Mendel Super | | | | | | The Rebbe's reply has proven itself right again and again. | | | | | | A childhood memory of faith, illness, and love By Chaim Mordechai Aizik Hodakov | | | | | | On the windowsill stood a silver candelabra large enough to hold nine candles and a box of tall candles. I understood I was being initiated into a rite I hadn't known existed until that moment. By Susan Kennedy-Arenz | | | | | | The twenty-second letter of the Hebrew alphabet Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin | | | | | | |
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