On Saturday evening, Jews all over the world will sit down at their dining tables to celebrate Passover. This year, you might want to do the same. Do not find the nearest Jewish home and crash the Seder — that could go horribly wrong. But a year into the pandemic, there is something...
The arrest of several Jewish activists for trying to smuggle in a kid and conduct a sacrificeon the Temple Mount a few years agowas a reminder that before the Passover seder was invented, the festival was all about the killing and eating of baby goats a...
Passover at Disney: Why Some Jews Are Traveling for the HolidayA small but growing number of Jewish people might not celebratethe ancient rituals ritual of...Schouten, Lucy
Pesach, otherwise known as theJewishPassover, begins on the 15th of the month of Nisan and lasts for 7 days for those living inIsrael, or 8 days for Jews outside of Israel, based on the concept of Yom Tov Sheni Shel Galuyot. The purpose of this holiday is to celebrate spring, birt...
Celebrations are still held within Jewish communities around the world, and some organizations are allowed to close to fully celebrate. In Israel, it is not considered a public holiday, although schools do close for the day.How To Celebrate Lag B’Omer?
With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him. But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?” They shouted back, “...
No date is given in the Bible, so why do we celebrate it on the 25th December? The early Christians certainly had many arguments as to when it should be celebrated! Also, the birth of Jesus probably didn't happen in the year 1 but slightly earlier, somewhere between 2 BCE/BC and 7 ...
Plenty. In the Bible, there isnoLent, there isnoGood Friday, and theonlypeople celebrating Easter are the pagan Romans like Herod who killed Christians. It breaks my heart seeing Baptist churches putting up signs for ‘holy week’, and ‘come celebrate Good Friday with us’, proving just ...
By Danny Kladnitsky If you were looking for the guy who encourages others to do religion, I probably wouldn’t be your first guess. I am a real estate professional in Minneapolis. I don’t come from an observant background, and I...
Answer: It would not have been impossible in Jerusalem. There is no reason to think that all Christians in that city made up only one congregation. Although they met daily in the temple, we know that they did not celebrate the Lord’s supper there. The Jews would never have permitted tha...