Tag: Jewish Holidays
Today is Tu BiShvat
Every winter, just as we start to think about spring, a minor holiday comes along. Minor enough that not all of us know what it means or how it came to be.
Tu Bishvat first...
These Christians celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
On the night of Rosh Hashanah, thousands of people will leave work, gather in congregations across the globe and worship God, the ruler of the world. Ten days later they will begin a fast...
Tisha Be’Av: A Failed Holiday?
The year 403 BCE was momentous for the city-state of Athens. In the previous years, a bloody civil war had devastated the city and caused it to fall under the yoke of its arch-rival,...
Celebrating the power of restraint—a Shavuot message
Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky relates the following poignant story:
I once sat on an overseas flight next to a talkative executive who was skeptical about his own Jewish heritage. During the first hours of the flight,...
Shavuot is God’s gift to the Jewish people
Shavuot reminds us that the Torah is G-d’s gift to the Jewish people. Shavuot is one of the three pilgrimage festivals (the others are Pesach and Sukkot) in the Jewish religion and its observance...
This Jewish holiday is about way more than cheesecake
When the sun sets next Tuesday, the Jewish holiday Shavuot will officially begin and continue until sundown on Wednesday, exactly 50 days since the first Passover seder.
If you only know one thing about Shavuot,...
Parents and children already love the ‘The Hogwarts Haggadah’
Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg hopes you’ll use his latest novel to teach your child about Passover.
The book? “The Hogwarts Haggadah,” a guide to the upcoming Jewish holiday that uses character studies of Harry Potter to...