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Hanukkah in Oporto

The Hanukkah festival has begun on the 25th of Kislev on the Hebrew calendar. It lasts for eight days.

From Kiryat Shmona to Melbourne, from Sderot to Washington, from Jerusalem to Paris, anyone can light a virtual candle.

In the 16th century, Portuguese Jews played a crucial role in saving England from the threat of the Spanish Armada. Here’s the remarkable story.

“We need to act against the head of the snake, which is the Iranian regime itself.... And that’s what we will do,” Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told JNS.

With the intensification of hostage deal negotiations, mediators have focused on elderly and critically ill individual.

“It won’t be complete, but we’ll be able to hand it over, and then the next administration can decide how it wants to proceed,” the U.S. secretary of state told “MSNBC.”