Each April, the past and present mingle during Passover, one of the most significant holidays on the Jewish calendar. Passover, or "Pesach" in Hebrew, is an eight-day (or seven in Israel ...

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23) to describe the lechem hapanim? The Rokeach (Hilchot Purim, siman 240) asks this question. Why are the festivals followed by paragraphs discussing the oil for the menorah and then the lechem ...

It’s the only Jewish holiday that is two days long both outside and inside Israel. Ancient Jews relied on a calendar based on actual cycles of the moon, not one arbitrarily set. Thus ...

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But she never knew her Granny Fanny; she had never celebrated Jewish holidays. A perennial jar of borscht in the cupboard had been the extent of her Jewishness. “It was so peripheral in my ...

Israel was targeted with missiles but ultimately spared, and Kirschen imagined a new Jewish holiday in which worshippers wear replica gas masks and have a big dinner in rooms symbolically draped ...

I was raised in a Jewish household, where I celebrate every major Jewish holiday, had a bat mitzvah and spent six years learning Hebrew. Doing all of these things felt natural — what I should be ...

I hope and pray for good news and better days, in which we can truly celebrate the Jewish holidays and calendar, together as a unified nation, with lighter hearts and better spirits. A PASSOVER ...