Featured in Holidays

• Be Happy! It’s Adar!
• Nina’s Rosh Hashanah Cooking Show!
• 🍞❤️ Challah Bake with Nina!
• The Summer Solstice And Judaism – Bring On the Clouds!
• The Secret to Chanukah
• Day 715 – Murder at a Purim Feast

Holiday Videos

• The Shofar Speaks!
• Nina and Sal read the Book of Lamentations On Tisha b'Av we mourn our lost Temple.
• Today’s Shofar Blast! Today's shofar blast. Share it with a friend!
• L’Chaim Show – Purim Edition!
• A.T. On The Road To Uman 2017 Uman at Rosh HaShanah time - there's nothing like it!
• Hoshana Rabbah! Dancing with the willows before next year's decree is sealed!
• Welcoming The Month of Joy! Musical Hallel to welcome the Hebrew month of Adar!

Most Recent

• June 21, 2018November 12, 2020 The Summer Solstice And Judaism – Bring On the Clouds!

  The longest day of the year is a time when God’s presence is most concealed. Even on a hot, cloudless day, however, the Sages’ words of Torah aroused moisture in the air, which in turn created the beautiful semblance of a rainbow.

• December 15, 2016August 23, 2019 Christmas In Jerusalem With My Beautiful Mom

  Good Shabbos! Ten years ago today, I toured the Old City of Jerusalem on Christmas Day with Mom. My film “When Do We Eat?” was playing in the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, and Mom seized the chance to visit Israel with me – something we’d never done together.

• December 12, 2016August 23, 2019 My Soul Is Not A Thing – It’s A Channel

  The night I experienced the reality of my soul.

• December 9, 2016January 16, 2020 Hanukkah in Germany, 1931

  Directly across from the Posner home stood the Nazi headquarters. With the eight lights of the menorah glowing brightly in her window, Rabbi Posner’s wife, Rachel, snapped a photo of it and captured the Nazi flag in the background. 

   

• December 8, 2016August 23, 2019 The Secret to Chanukah

  Rosh Chodesh Chanukah, 5773 (2012)
  I wrote the Secret to Chanukah late last night. Between then and now, I heard the horrific news coming out of Newtown, CT, where a mass murder occurred in an Elementary School.

• December 1, 2016January 16, 2020 Hanukkah in the Ghetto

  Hanukkah in the ghetto. Never before in Jewish Warsaw were there as many Hanukkah celebrations as in this year of the wall… 
   

• July 29, 2015August 23, 2019 The Bride With Many Souls

  On the 15th of the Hebrew month of Av, the maidens of Jerusalem would go out dressed in white garments and dance in the vineyards.

• October 8, 2014August 23, 2019 An Ancient Trick For Resolutions That Stick

  The Jewish holiday season, from Rosh Hashanah through Sukkot, is actually a sophisticated technology for personal repair bequeathed to us by G-d via Moses 3,300 years ago, with accompanying instructions for upgrades over the millennia.

• March 1, 2012August 23, 2019 Day 715 – Murder at a Purim Feast

  As Purim approaches, we encounter a Talmudic conundrum:
  Rava said: One must become so intoxicated on Purim that he cannot distinguish between “Cursed is Haman” and “Blessed is Mordechai.” Rabbah and Rav Zeira celebrated the Purim feast together. They became intoxicated. Rabbah arose and slaughtered Rav Zeira.