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Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, is observed for
eight days, beginning on the evening of the 25th day of
the Hebrew month of Kislev. This year Chanukah starts
Sunday Evening, December 14, 2025.
Chanukah is a wonderful holiday of renewed dedication,
faith, hope and spiritual light. It's a holiday that says:
"Never lose hope." Chanukah commemorates the victory of a
small band of Maccabees over the pagan Syrian-Greeks who
ruled over Israel.
The Chanukah Page includes lesson sites in several languages,
videos, songs, Chanukah trivia quiz, English Hebrew vocabulary lists,
recipes, games, Whatsapp stickers, humor, photos, clipart, coloring pages and
a map of the sites of the Maccabees 166-161 BCE.
The address is:
https://jr.co.il/hotsites/chanukah.htm
The Chanukah Video Page has links to over 1,300 cool Chanukah videos:
https://jr.co.il/videos/chanukah-videos.htm
The video page will be updated as we get closer to Chanukah.
The Chanukah humor section has 131 items that will make you smile.
https://jr.co.il/humor/chanuka.htm
Enjoy!
Please share these holiday resources. Thank You!
Please continue to pray for and support Israel.
https://jr.co.il/prayers/
May the wounded have a complete and speedy recovery.
May God protect the IDF, the police, the security forces
and all of Am Yisrael.
Shavua Tov!
Have a good week!
Jacob
Hi Everyone!
I added several turkey challot photos to the
Thanksgiving humor page at:
https://jr.co.il/humor/thanksgiving.htm
Enjoy!
Please share. Thank you!
Please continue to pray for and support Israel.
https://jr.co.il/prayers/
May the wounded have a complete and speedy recovery.
May God protect the IDF, the police, the security forces
and all of Am Yisrael.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Jacob
Hi Everyone!
Today, November 19, I went to the Moshe Castel Museum
in Ma'ale Adumim to see the premeir exhibition of
Israel Landscapes of the Freedom Fighter by Mordechai Avniel
The exhibition started today and will run till December 17, 2025.
You can view the photos I took at:
https://jr.co.il/ma/pic/2025/ma1583.htm
There are several other exhibitions right now at the museum.
You can view the list of permanent and temporaray exhibitions at:
https://castelmuseum.co.il/en/
Enjoy the photos. Please share. Thank you!
Please continue to pray for and support Israel.
https://jr.co.il/prayers/
May the wounded have a complete and speedy recovery.
May God protect the IDF, the police, the security forces
and all of Am Yisrael.
Have a good night!
Jacob
I created a new section on my links page for
Whatsapp Channels:
https://jr.co.il/links/#whatsapp-channels
All channel listed below are active and free.
* Whatsapp English and Hebrew Stickers - my channel
currently includes: Rain, Shabbat Shalom, Shavua Tov,
Laila Tov - Good Night, Refuah Shleima - Get Well,
Toda - Thank You, Yom Wholedet Sameach - Happy Birthday,
Rosh Chodesh - New Hebrew Month, Happy Thanksgiving
* C14 - Channel 14 News - Hebrew
* Israel Hayom News - Hebrewv
* Arutz 7 News - Hebrew
* Amit Segal - Journalist - Hebrew
* IDF - English
* IDF - Hebrew
* Israel Police - English
* Israel Police - Hebrew
* G1 Good News - Hebrew
* Touring Israel - Hebrew
* Israel Nature Channel - Hebrew
* National Geographic - English
* Hidabroot - Hebrew
* Geek Time - Hebrew
* Stand With Us - English
* Government Press Office - Hebrew
* United Hatzalah of Israel - English
* United Hatzalah - Hebrew
* Magen David Adom - English
* Zaka - Hebrew
* Sports Channel One - Hebrew
* Sports Channel 5 - Hebrew
* Ministry of Health - Hebrew
* Israel Railways - Hebrew
* Misrad Habitachon - Hebrew
* The Central Bureau of Statistics - Hebrew
* The Food Channel - Hebrew
* SuperPharm - Hebrew
* Kan News Channel 11 - Hebrew
* Keshet Channel 12 - Hebrew
* Jerusalem Center for Security and
Foreign Affairs - JCFA - Hebrew
* Tech Radar - English
* Interesting Engineering - English
* Bloomberg News - English
* Forbes - English
Enjoy! Please share. Thank you!
Please continue to pray for and support Israel.
https://jr.co.il/prayers/
May the wounded have a complete and speedy recovery.
May God protect the IDF, the police, the security forces
and all of Am Yisrael.
Shavua Tov!
Jacob
Hi Everyone!
For many years, people looking for Whatsapp stickers
have messaged me if I could send them stickers.
The messages increase before each holiday.
Five years ago, I created an app with 300 stickers.
https://jr.co.il/stickers/index.html
Tonight, I created a new Whatsapp channel for English and Hebrew stickers.
This channel will include stickers that go beyond my own app / stickers.
The postings, by me, will be for specific topics and will stay online for 30 days.
The first topic I just posted is "rain stickers".
Next week, b"h, I will post Thanksgiving and after that will be Chanukah.
You are welcome to join and invite friends.
https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbCd5w78qJ02YMdE4G2Z
FYI:
Channels are distinct from your private chats and serve as
a one-way broadcast, not a conversation.
You can browse available channels by category and topic directly
within the WhatsApp "Updates" tab. The tab is located on
the bottom of your chat screen.
Channels you follow, like chats, take up storage on your phone.
The stickers are small but it can accumulate over years.
I have over 5,848 stickers on my phone taking 729 megs of storage.
I am a collector :-)
Just to compare, I have 110 videos on my phone taking
937 megs of storage. Why only 110? A few times a year
I move my videos off my phone to my computer.
Although the channels will only display the last 30 days
of posts, you may want to clear the channels you follow
every so often if you are tight on space.
Go to Settings > Storage and data > Manage storage.
Select a channel to see the amount of space it is using.
Tap and hold an item, then tap the trash icon to delete it.
This will remove the content from your phone.
Per Google, WhatsApp has surpassed 500 million monthly
active users on its channels since its launch.
Enjoy! Please share.
Please continue to pray for and support Israel.
https://jr.co.il/prayers/
May the wounded have a complete and speedy recovery.
May God protect the IDF, the police, the security forces
and all of Am Yisrael.
Have a good night!
Jacob
jrichman@jr.co.il
Hi Everyone!
Today, I enjoyed a walk in Ma'ale Adumim and took photos
of flora. I posted them online at:
https://jr.co.il/ma/pic/2025/ma1582.htm
I updated the "Shabbat Shalom" image page with over
750 images from around the net.
https://jr.co.il/shabbat-shalom/index.html
The Thanksgiving humor page has cartoons, videos,
and English / Hebrew memes.
The page include a video clip of the 1978 WKRP Turkey Drop
and several cool Turkey shaped Challot.
https://jr.co.il/humor/thanksgiving.htm
I added several new pages to the Jewish Humor section at:
https://jr.co.il/humor/jewish-cartoons.htm
- Rain scene from the Frisco Kid - short mp4 movie clip
- Bobkat
- Jewish Bubbe
- Fight of the Century
- A Shanda
Enjoy! Please share. Thank You!
Please continue to pray for and support Israel.
https://jr.co.il/prayers/
May the wounded have a complete and speedy recovery.
May God protect the IDF, the police, the security forces
and all of Am Yisrael.
Have a good night!
Jacob
Shalom Everyone!
This week is the 87th Anniversary of Kristallnacht - November 9-10, 2025.
https://jr.co.il/t/kristallnacht.htm
We Must Not Forget!
Please share. Thank You!
Please continue to pray for and support Israel.
https://jr.co.il/prayers/
May the wounded have a complete and speedy recovery.
May God protect the IDF, the police, the security forces
and all of Am Yisrael.
Shavua Tov,
Jacob
Shalom.
Tonight, the 12th of Cheshvan,
is my sister's, Nili Avrahamy, 4th yahrzeit.
4 years ago she passed away from cancer.
We miss her very much.
There is a memorial page in her memory at:
https://jr.co.il/richman/in-memory-of-nili-avrahamy.htm
Today, tomorrow or whenever you can,
please put a few coins in any charity box
in memory of: Nili bat Avraham Itzhak.
Thank You!
May her neshama have an Aliyah.
May her memory be for a blessing.
Jacob
Shani
Meshi
Yotam
