Chanukah isn’t only about what happened long ago. It’s about what's happening right now. We are the miracle and our light still burns. Enjoy and share this inspiring video prepared by ZRC Board member Neal Katz and featuring a number of our members. Happy Chanukah!

Proud of our Founding Member Aaron Melman as well as Aaron Gaber, Ze’ev Lowenberg, and all the members of ZRC who also serve our troops as Chaplains. 

Read about the high-level meetings of ZRC Mission to Azerbaijan and Israel – and join us on our next overseas mission. 

FALLEN SOLDIERS|VICTIMS OF TERROR

WE REMEMBER -- THE VICTIMS OF THE BONDI BEACH ATTACK IN AUSTRALIA 

Matilda Britvan, 10 years old

Edith Brutman, Vice President of B’nai B’rith New South Wales

Dan Elkayam, 27 years old, French National

Boris, 69 years old and Sofia Gurman, 61 years old, married for 34 years

Alexander Kleytman, 87 years old, Holocaust survivor

Rabbi Yaakov Levitan, 39 years old

Peter Meagher, 61 years old

Reuven Morrison, 62 years old

Marika Pogany, 82 years old

Rabbi Eli Schlanger, 41 years old

Adam Smyth, a 50-year-old

Boris Tetleroyd, he was with his son Ya'akov who is currently hospitalized

Tibor Weitzen, 78 years old

Click Here to learn more about those who were brutally murdered

MAY THEIR MEMORIES BE FOR A BLESSING

THIS WEEK IN ISRAEL

ISRAELI INNOVATION

Prof. Yifat Merbl of the Weizmann Institute of Science has been named to Nature’s 10, the journal’s annual list recognizing the people who most influenced science in 2025, following a major discovery about the human immune system

OF INTEREST TO RABBIS

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ZRC 5th Annual Conference, Tuesday, April 28 - April 30

Israel joined the US’s Pax Silica Initiative to cooperate on supply chains for artificial intelligence at an international conference in Washington.

US National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard warns after Sydney Chanukah massacre that the greatest threat now facing the United States and the world as a whole is Islamism, pushes for stronger border control and deportations.

A new intelligence review has found that most Palestinians described as journalists who were killed in the Gaza war were actually members or affiliates of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, adding fresh evidence to long-standing Israeli claims that terror groups blur the lines between media activity and military roles.

In New York, the Brooklyn Nets, who face off against the Miami Heat tonight, will pay tribute to those killed in the terror attack on Sundayin Sydney, Australia. A nephew of slain Chabad Rabbi Eli Schlanger will participate in the tribute.

In the wake of the attack in Australia, some European authorities are stepping up efforts to crack down on antisemitic incitement

Speaking at the White House Hanukkah party, Trump warns that Israel, "Jewish lobby" have lost influence in DC

Dozens of Brown University students shielded their candles at a menorah lighting that doubled as a vigil on Sunday night as Hanukkah arrived under a sheet of snow and a thick blanket of trauma, following a mass shooting in an economics class.

Sen. John Fetterman reacted to the antisemitic terror attack in Australia, warning that when Western countries recognize a Palestinian state, terrorists are emboldened to act.

Click on the picture below as Israeli guitarist Avi Singolda plays Hatikvah amid great emotion and celebration of Euro basketball returning home to Israel after two years

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