Rosh Hashana - 1 Tishrei
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year 5765, begins sunset September 15, 2004 and continues until nightfall September 17, 2004. Here are 88 links about Rosh Hashana, ranging from laws and customs to games and...
Winners of the National Jewish Book Awards
Winners
Everett Family Jewish Book of the Year Award
SIX DAYS OF WAR June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East By Michael B. Oren Oxford University Press
Anthology
CULTURES OF THE JEWS...
Hagadda for Shavuot
Shavuot, the end of a "seven times seven" days countdown, is finally here, and it brings you this Haggadah.
Shavuot's main tradition is the Tikkun Leil Shavuot. On Shavuot's night, people around the world will...
Inaugurado por el príncipe, El Museo Sefardí de Toledo reabre sus puertas tras...
TOLEDO.- El Príncipe Felipe ha inaugurado el Museo Sefardí de Toledo, que reúne 1.253 piezas de los orígenes del pueblo judío y que ha permanecido dos años cerrado para acometer una primera fase de...
Some customs for the holiday of Hanoukah
1)The custom in Egypt was not to say Sidouq HaDin all 8 days of Hanoukah.
2)The custom amongst all Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities is to only use pure olive oil for the...
Un cuento de Purim - Historia de Leon y Dina
Gran inseguridad reinaba en Bohemia en los tiempos del rey Juan de Luxemburgo, quien solía encontrarse más en los campos de batalla de toda Europa, en busca de hazañas y conquistas, que en su...
Las Tablas eran de Piedra - Un artículo sobre Shavuot
"Yo había subido al monte a recoger las tablas de piedra, las tablas de la alianza"
Deuteronomio 9:9
De piedra eran las tablas. De un material simple y barato.
Si algún ser humano hubiera sido encargado de...
August 12 - Yorzait of the murder of The Jewish Russian Intelligentsia
Text from "Seven-fold Betrayal": The Murder of Soviet Yiddish
zayn kop loykht-oyf mit zibn likhter
ariber zibn mol farrat.
er vert tsurik gezalbter dikhter
oyf toytn dil fun kazamat.
Jewish tradition mandates the lighting of memorial candles on the...
Yom Hashoah - 27 Nisan
Yom Hazikaron L'shoah V'l'giborah, or Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day, takes place on the 27th of Nisan. It is often known simply as Yom HaShoah; "shoah," Hebrew for destruction, is another name for...
Purim - 14 Adar
One is required to read the Megillah at night, and then again during the day. The Megillah may be read all night till the coming of dawn. By day, the Megillah may likewise be...
