Rosh Hashanahis the the beginning of the Jewish New Year, in this case 5783, and kicks off the High Holy Days. It is an important two-day holiday with a focus on long prayer services in synagogue, spending time
Subscribe to The Jerusalem Post Newsletter Subscribe Now In his twisted logic, if he cannot rule Iran, then he would prefer it burned to ashes and rendered uninhabitable. Such is the mind of a criminal mullah – a parasitic worm feeding off the body of the homeland. Today, commanders of th...
As a small Islamic town on the northern coast of the Red Sea near today’s Eilat was in existence at the time, these remains suggest trade connections between this town and Jerusalem. Treif Fish in Jerusalem? According to the Torah, only fish with fins and scales may be eaten (Deut 14:...
This is exactly what every Jew goes through all the time. Everyone can understand this according to his own experience. All the ups and downs that a person goes through throughout his life can be compared to the exile in Egypt, because the main exile is the exile of the soul. A person...
One Sunday afternoon I saw Mathews hit a baseball so hard on a fly to center field that, even though it could not leave the park, he had crossed home by the time the center-fielder reached the ball. At the Shabbat dinner in Jerusalem, I was talking with some Shearith Israel stalwarts ...
Chodesh Tov– Good Chodesh! Basically, Happy New Month! This is a greeting extended on the first day of the new month, which is a festive time and minor holiday (but not like a holiday where you can’t turn on the lights or get in the car). ...
Henrietta Szold at home, Jerusalem, circa 1922; via Wikimedia Commons By Sally Berkovic As long as she made no demands to earn the title ‘rabbi,’ Henrietta Szold was the first woman, in 1903, allowed to attend classes at New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary. She would be celebrating...
FEAST of FIRST FRUITS is the DAY after Shabbat, right after the Feast of Unleavened Bread–THIS DAY of FIRST FRUITS is SUNDAY (for us this year, April 20th)–which coincides with RESURRECTION SUNDAY–hence the Lord Jesus gathering the FIRST FRUITS of all the OT saints waiting in the “Para...
The Covenant Setting - This is what Moses said to all of Israel in the Transjordanian wilderness, the arid rift valley opposite Suph, between Paran
Another important date in May is Lyar 22. Consider this, God commanded The Sabbath AFTER He sent the Bread from Heaven, the 22 Lyar 1313 BCE. On that friday morning, enough manna fell for two days’ worth of meals, as on the Shabbat it would be prohibited to gather the manna. ...