Author: Alex Kojfman

A Gathering for Bereaved Parents Zichronam l’bracha זכרונו לברכם Friday, November 3 to Sunday, November 5, 2023at Temple Israel of Hollywood We invite bereaved parents, close relatives, friends supporting grieving […]

Every gift to TIOH makes a difference. A gift to the Eileen Horowitz Scholarship Fund ensures that we can continue to provide a top-notch Jewish education to every student who […]

Spice Container a  Spice Container b  The ritual at the close of Shabbat uses a number of symbolic objects to mark the separation between Shabbat and the rest of the […]

The “Alphabet of Creation” is depicted by internationally famed artist Ben Shahn. In this screen-print of 1957, Shahn presents the letters of the Aleph Bet (the Hebrew Alphabet) in deliberately […]

The requirement for observant Jewish women to cover their hair has been around for many centuries. There are differing ideas however, as with most Jewish customs, as to where its […]

Deported during the Second World War, young Nandor Glid was sent to a work camp in Hungary while his family perished in Auschwitz. Glid later escaped the camp and fought […]

Archeologists continue to discover Roman Glass in Jerusalem and many parts of the expansive Roman Empire of 2000 years ago. Roman Glass is made up mostly of beach sand and […]

The Baal Shem Tov, also known as Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, was the founder of Hasidism, a Jewish spiritual movement that emphasizes joy, love, and devotion to God. He was […]

Rubin Reuven was born in 1893in Lasi, Romania. He studied art at the Bucharest Academy of Fine Arts and the Acadimie Julian in Paris before moving to Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine […]