This number is higher than those who fast, at least partially, on Yom Kippur (53%) or light candles for Shabbat (23%). It shows the centrality of the Seder in Jewish life, particularly in comparison with other standard, daily or weekly, Jewish practices. The numbers for participation in ...
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My father frequently told me about his favourite Shabbat drasha, one that he heard from his Rabbi, Morris Untermann, in his youth during the “Swinging ’60s”. He especially remembered the opening line which was: “Why the new morality is just the old immorality.” Amusingly, when I fina...
When does the Jewish calendar end? When is Hanukkah on the Hebrew calendar? When is Rosh Hashanah on the Roman calendar? When was Jesus born on the Jewish calendar? Is the Jewish calendar lunar or solar? When is the day of atonement on the Hebrew calendar? When was the Jewish calendar ...
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While the school year and the Jewish New Year also give me a similar sense of a ‘fresh start’, January is a whole other animal. I use December for myself and for my groups as a time to reflect, analyze and project. We look at the highs, the lows, the lessons and the themes ...
Where is it celebrated? Israel (National holiday, hebrew) Shushan Purim is a holiday that’s somewhat unique among Jewish holidays. It’s a holiday whose date is connected to when the person chooses to celebrate it. For most people, this holiday falls on Adar 14, but in Jerusalem or Shush...
A sabbatical year like 1994, is a year of rest, usually the seventh year, like the shabbat, which is the seventh day of the week in Judaism. The term may refer
A Jewish family on Erev Shabbat The ethical and moral laws provided in Parasha Ki Tetze cover several instances ofmarriage. Among them is the case of a woman whose second husband has died or divorced her. This Parasha states that her first husband cannot remarry her(Deuteronomy 24:4). ...
restrict immigration even further was “aimed chiefly at the Jews who, [a senator] asserted, have been emigrating to American in disproportionately large numbers.” Disproportionate Jewish immigration from Russia, the senator told JTA, was “unfair to the predominating population of those countries....