Why do Jews celebrate Purim? Why is Hanukkah celebrated? What day is the Passover feast eaten? What is a Seder? What is Pesach in Judaism? What is the proper greeting for Passover? Why is Hanukkah celebrated for 8 days? When was the first Passover celebrated?
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...
Last year was our first pandemic Passover. We celebrated the holiday over Zoom, unable to imagine the enormity of the loss and hardship the coronavirus, and our nation’s inadequate response to it, would bring: More than 500,000 dead, a nation stifled by lockdowns, mass economic suffering....
Why is Yom Kippur celebrated? Why do Jews celebrate Shabbat? Why is Passover 8 days? What is the history of Hanukkah? How did the Jewish calendar start? What day does Hanukkah start on the Hebrew calendar? What is Hanukkah? Why is Passover celebrated?
but we forget to internalize their messages. Every holiday has its unique customs and laws. And through celebrating the holidays, we have the opportunity to become closer to G-d. If celebrated properly, Passover and the other Jewish holidays will enhance our lives in ways we cannot even imagi...
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 ...
As well as Christmas and the solstice, there are some other festivals that are held in late December. Hanukkah is celebrated by Jews; and the festival of Kwanzaa is celebrated by some Africans and African Americans takes place from December 26th to January 1st....
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
by a rededication(Hanukkah) of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. It is from this act that the holiday gets its name, which I find very interesting because of something so small created a holiday. But with Christian religion it would be Christmas and its only celebrated one day. The day ...
The Time of Year Easter is celebrated is related to the celebration of Passover Around the Spring time, Jews celebrate the holiday of Passover (in Aramaic: פסחא or Pascha). Part of the Passover story is that the blood of sacrificial lambs was used to indicate to God to pass...