Yom Kippur occurs this year on Wednesday, September 23, 2015. This very important fasting day begins at sunset on Tishri 9 and lasts until three stars appear after Tishri 10. Yom Kippur is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. The observance is also known as the Day of Atonement…
Category: Judaism
General
The Jewish High Holidays
The time period between Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year and Yom Kippur– the holiest day in Judaism, a fasting day – these days are called: The (Jewish) High Holidays. The meaning of this time period stems from the fact that these are days of repentance; it is a time of…
General
Holocaust Memorial Day; Yom Ha’Shoah
Remembrance Day for the Holocaust and 2nd WW heroism, is known in Israel and outside the country as Yom Ha’Shoah and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day. In year 2015 it will occur on April 16. This day commemorates the remembrance for the nearly six million Jews who were slaughtered…
A taste of Israel
Events during Passover Holiday 2014
Pessach – the Jewish Passover- is approaching; it will be celebrated this year on April 14-21. As it is a school holiday, many attractions are offered throughout the country,mainly to children/ families. Here are some interesting ones: What games did our parents play with? A live-exhibition at the David Tower…
A taste of Israel
An ancient curse-plate
Did you hear of an ancient Curse-plates? Recently, a small ancient plate was dug at the Archaeological digs in the city of David, in Jerusalem. This plate, 1,700 tears old, was a curse-plate that had been probably summoned by a woman by the name of Kirilla who wished to curse…
Judaism
Tisha B’Av
Tisha B’Av is a fast day that memorializes the devastation of the 1st and 2nd Temples in Jerusalem. In addition, it also became a day of public bereavement for other great calamities that have befallen the Jewish people, from the Decree of Expulsion from England in 1290 to the mass…
Judaism
Shavuot
Shavuot occurs seven weeks after Pessach. Shavuot is one of the major festivals of Judaism, a “Yom Tov.” In contrast to Pesach, the most widely celebrated Jewish Holiday among American Jews, the celebration of Shavuot is comparatively significant. Shavuot is one of the major festivals of Judaism. Perhaps this is…
Judaism
Lag Ba’Omer
Lag Ba’Omer falls on the 33rd day of the counting of the Omer (gathering of the wheat) as enumerated from the 2nd day of Passover until the holiday of Shavuot. This corresponds to the 18th day of the month of Iyar. This one day holiday is celebrated to commemorate the…