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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Rosh Hashanah, “The New Year” in Hebrew, is a deeply spiritual holiday. The New Year commemorates the creation of the world (Adam and Eve were created on Rosh Hashanah) and each year the world's existence is extended for another year, created anew, as it were. Mankind is also included in...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Each week of the year, another of the Torah's 54 parshat is studied, publicly read in the synagogue, and its lessons applied to daily living. Thus the Jew lives with the Torah: the Five Books of Moses are his calendar, their chapters and verses marking, defining, molding and inspiring the weeks and ...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Every year when I make hamentashen I vow, “Never again!” They're so difficult to make and no one really likes them. However, through more ambitious and resourceful friends, I have located some good recipes. They're not easier but the results are worth it. And if all else fails—ther...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Tuesday December 4 - Wednesday December 12
In the time of King Antiochus, the fate of the Jewish people seemed grim indeed. The vastly outnumbered Maccabees were up against the world's most sophisticated military machine. They faced opposition from within, as well. Many of t...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Sunday, December 21th - Wednesday, December 29th
Redemption Against All Odds
In the time of King Antiochus, over 2,200 years ago, the fate of the Jewish people seemed grim. The vastly outnumbered Maccabees were up against the world’s most sophisticated military machine....
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
On Rosh Hashanah, it is customary to sound the shofar and blow trumpets at the coronation of a king. Similarly, on Rosh Hashanah, we crown G-d as king over the universe at large and over each of us in particular.
The sound of the shofar is to awaken people to repent and return...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
If your mother is anything like mine, she probably told you weeks ago not to get her anything for Mother's Day. “Since when did Mother's Day become a Jewish holiday? Don't bother yourself over me.”
Of course we know to ignore such self-defacing comments. But she may have a point. Is...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
This year Jews celebrate the first two nights of Passover on the 19th and 20th of April with a joyous family event—the seder. We relive the experience of our ancestors as they were exiled and enslaved in Egypt, then liberated by G-d over 3,300 years ago. We recount the miracles of the Exodus,...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Purim is the festival which commemorates the breathtaking Jewish victory over the murderous designs of Haman. It is a story of great courage and self-sacrifice, first and foremost by Queen Esther and Mordechai, and ultimately by the whole Jewish nation. This joyous festival reveals the hidden hand o...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
While the local customs of Purim are widely known, there are places in the world that have developed their own ways to celebrate the Purim festivities.
Germany
On Erev Purim, torches containing gunpowder would be ignited. During the Megillah reading, the gunpowder would explode with a deafeni...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Dear Rabbis, Professors, Relatives, and Friends,
This year Pourim day falls out on Friday March 21, 2008.
Pourim day has fallen out on Friday 13 times only from 1900--2005.
Pourim day will fall out on Friday only 11 times from 2008--2103.
This is a rare o...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Rosh Hashanah is a time for judgement and remembrance; and as we all know, it’s also a time for a big family dinner. Symbolizing a sweet new year, recipes often make use of honey and other sweet foods. Here are some hearty, delicious holiday dishes to delight your family this year.
09/12/2008 | 254 Hits |  (0 vote) | Print | PDF
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
It is customary for the Jewish family to hear the Ten Commandments in the synagogue on the first day of Shavuot. Experience this special moment with your children this holiday!
Ten Commandments
These ten commands range from the highest and most refined concepts of the belief ...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Shavuot commemorates the single most important event in Jewish history—the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai.
Shavuot is the culmination of the seven-week-long “counting of the Omer” that occurs following Passover. The very name “Shavuot” means “weeks,&rdquo...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Imagine you throw a huge party and invite everyone you know. But this is no regular party, it's one solid week of food, music and fun. Eventually things wind down and people begin to leave. As the host, you quietly go over to a few of your best friends and whisper: “Stick around after everyone...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Someone's luggage inevitably comes off the conveyor belt first. The odds (compared to say, winning a state lottery) are not really that heavily stacked against you, especially on a local flight. Yet after years of watching other people's luggage pass me by as I vainly waited for my non-descript suit...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Yom Kippur is the time to achieve forgiveness for our wrongdoings and shortcomings. Since we don't want G-d to judge us negatively, we try to distance ourselves from them as much as possible. We do this because we don't want G-d to judge us harshly.
Sukkot, by contrast, comes after the judgmen...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Tisha B'Av, the Fast of the Ninth of Av, is a day of mourning to commemorate the many tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people, many of which occurred on the ninth of Av.
Tisha B'Av means “the ninth (day) of Av.” This year it begins at sunset on August 9.
Tisha B'Av pr...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Ahusband and wife fight and they grow apart. Neither is willing to take the first step towards reconciliation and so the rift deepens. Each one blames the other for the problems in the relationship.
But, as time goes on, one of them realizes that there is a choice to be made: accept my own weak...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Trivia experts recognize it immediately as the line that resulted in the longest recorded laugh in radio history. Jews understand it as the underlying theme of Sukkot, the ancient festival of the harvest.
09/25/2007 | 364 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF
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