Update: Congratulations to Mimi, winner of the giveaway!! Finally, a Jewish I SPY book! Hidden Treasures, published by Attara Publishing and distributed by HaChai Publishing, is a large full color book that contains a beautiful I SPY page for all of the holidays in the Jewish calendar. Each laminated page features a brief description of a holiday and... Read more

The best place to get a feel for what the Second Temple looked like is on the roof of the Aish Hatorah building in the Old City of Jerusalem. For 10 NIS per person you can climb to the most beautiful overlook of the Western Wall Plaza. There you will find a wide open space with two telescopes looking out on to the Western Wall Plaza and beyond and you... Read more

Kinnos for the Holocaust The slaughter of six million holy Jews is our own generation’s stark connection to the eternal Tishah B’Av. Two great and inspiring spiritual leaders of our time, The Bobover Rebbe and Rav Shimon Schwab, composed special Kinnos lamenting and memorializing the unspeakable tragedy of the holocaust. Many shuls and... Read more

There are various ways to make Tisha B’Av more meaningful for ourselves and for our children. There is, of course, the mourning over the many terrible tragedies which our people have suffered through. The details of these savage atrocities that were committed to our ancestors are enough to shake one to the core. And there is an additional way to mourn. By... Read more