Event Category: Holidays
Hanukkah – Jewish Community of Arad
Bright Holiday, Celebration of Light – This Year (2016) Generating “#Christnukkah” Hashtag
The evening of 2016, December the 24th, although with a different meaning for us than that for our Christian brothers, accounted for every person the beginning of a special holiday: Eve of Hanukkah / Christmas Eve. This coincidence has led to an unprecedented demotion of a traditional event. Here is its story: Many years ago, […]
Keep readingThe festival of light celebrated through music
Hanukah is a remembrance of the victory of the Maccabees over a larger Syrian army and a miracle that made the oil supply for Menora in the Temple of Jerusalem to last 8 days instead of one. Named the feast of light, it reminds us of the victory of good over evil, being a leitmotif on the […]
Keep readingThe feast of joy with knights and fairies
“These Jews are constantly celebrating,” that’s how every festivity presented by Ionel Schlesinger, the president of the Jewish community in Arad, begins, a moment that provokes many laughs. This time, the Jews from Arad gathered together, young and old, on the second day of March for a celebration as if from books of stories with […]
Keep readingA Seder with delicacies for the Jews in Arad
Only a few days have elapsed since the end of Purim (the feast of joy and the very beautifully dressed up children), and we entered Pesach, the celebration of liberation from Egyptian slavery, an arduous process, with the vehement opposition of the pharaoh, and hence the many obstacles over which the Jews have gone through […]
Keep readingReceiving the Torah celebrated in Arad
The Jewish Community of Arad celebrated the Shavuot, the event that marks the reception of the Torah by Moishe Rabeinu, a biblical moment, of the founding of the Jewish people. The religious event is brought back to the collective memory of all Jewish communities in the world for two days, in the diaspora and one […]
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A flame burning for over two thousand years!
On the evening of December, 7th, 2018 the Jews of Arad rejoiced together on Hannukah. Also called the feast of lights, Hag Haurim, in Hebrew, it celebrates the victory of the Maccabees on the Hellenes in Israel, and the miracle by which the synagogue oil lasted for eight days instead of one. In each of […]
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