Christmas Day: December 25 It’s important to note that there are other holidays, such as Cesar Chavez Day, which are celebrated by some states but not by all. In the State of California, in 2024, Cesar Chavez Day falls on April 1st, and all schools and state offices are closed in ob...
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The Jewish religious festival Lag B’Omer, also known as Lag BaOmer, is celebrated on the 33rd day of the Omer count and is considered a minor holiday. It marks the 33rd day out of the 49 days betweenPassoverandShavuot. Significantly, it is the only day during the Omer when Jewish ...
While Christmas is fixed to a solar calendar (and near the winter solstice), Easter is based on the lunar cycles of the Jewish calendar. In the Christian religion, the Last Supper (the final meal Jesus shared with his apostles before his crucifixion) was a Passover feast. Because Easter is...
Sukkot is celebrated by, first of all,building a sukkah. Jews are required to eat in the sukkah for eight days (seven days in Israel), and some even sleep in the sukkah for the duration of the holiday. The sukkah is decorated and the first day is considered a holy day in which most...
Just about a year later, we both got invited to a fellow comic’s Passover Seder dinner (neither of us are Jewish, but feel that we’ve celebrated enough Jewish holidays with friends we should be considered at least 30% Jewish). That night I decided I’d ignore him. But Anthony decide...
What is so beautiful about Yeshua ben Joseph is that even in myth he was exalted as being this great, powerful, wise, loving teacher. His message, thought to be original at that time, is an original message that did belong to him: “The kingdom of heaven is within and I am both th...
"One of the most important framing ideas in the Gospel of John is the Passover motif... Passover...was atheological foundation stone for the entire Gospel" (Borchet). The Passover will soon be celebrated (2:13), so the Paschal Lamb would be in the evangelist's mind as he writes ...
Passover, although taking place around the time of Easter is *not* an observance of the Last Supper. It is the observance of the time during the Jewish enslavement in Egypt, when the Jews were Passed Over by God at the time of the Plagues. Jews do not believe that Jesus was the Son...
According to the Gospels of the New Testament, on the day of Jesus’ trial, Jesus is brought before Pontius Pilate, who was the prefect or governor of Judea at the time. Pilate questioned Jesus in regard to the charges that Jesus claimed to be the Son of God. ...