Jewish Holidays

The staff and volunteers at Yad Ezra V’Shulamit’s children’s center in Jerusalem began noticing that one little girl only came to the after-school program every other day. And when they asked her why, she told them. “It’s because...

There must be something about Jewish heroes of late. Not only is one featured in a new Hallmark Channel movie, Holiday Date, two were recently featured in romance novels from Harlequin’s Super Edition imprint. The latest, Holiday by Candlelight by...

1 In  166 BCE, the guerrilla rebel Maccabees took back the Second Temple from Antiochus’s Seleucid Empire. The Hellenistic empire had taken over the Jewish temple and desecrated it, sacrificing pigs to Greek gods and contaminating...

Canadians hoping to add a little Hanukkah decor to their envelopes or gift packages this year are in luck, as Canada Post has issued a new holiday stamp to its roster this year. The new...

A holiday-inspired music album titled “Hanukkah+” will be released on Nov. 22 and feature a collection of Jewish classics and originals from artists, including Haim, the Flaming Lips, Jack Black and Yo La Tengo, The Rolling Stone reported. The album, produced...

The Hallmark Channel will premiere its first two Hanukkah-themed movies next month in honor of the eight-day Jewish holiday, which this year starts on Dec. 22, the New York Post reported on Wednesday. “Our audience is very vocal,...

This year, more than 5,000 Christians from all parts of the world gathered on Thursday for the city’s annual Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) festive march around Israel’s capital, which saw 10,000 participants in total. The...

Sukkot is akin to a Jewish Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving in America, no matter religion or background, families and friends come together to celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass., and to feast...

A special survey by the Israel Democracy Institute’s Guttman Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research in honor of Yom Kippur showed that 60.5 percent of Jewish Israelis plan to fast on the Jewish Day of...

Jewish Agency for Israel chair Isaac Herzog led 100 new olim (“new immigrants“) from 45 countries to selichot services—special prayers said by Jews worldwide during the days before and between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur—at the excavated tunnels...