Tag: Jewish

Hanukkah is an eight day Jewish festival of celebrating the recovery of Jerusalem and rededication of the second temple. It is also known as the festival of lights with use… Read More

Simchat Torah a Jewish holiday that celebrates and marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle. It comes at the… Read More

Shemini Atzeret is a Jewish holiday marking the end of Sukkot. Wikipedia

Sukkot is a seven day festival that both celebrates the harvest and is a remembrance of the Exodus out of Egypt. It is sometimes called “Feast of Booths” or “Feast… Read More

Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day in Judaism. Primarily centered on atonement and repentance, the day’s main observances consist of full fasting and ascetic behavior… Read More

Rosh HaShanah is the Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashanah begins a ten-day period of penitence culminating in Yom Kippur, as well as beginning the cycle of autumnal religious festivals running… Read More

Tisha B’Av is an annual fast day in Judaism, on which a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred, primarily the destruction of both Solomon’s Temple by the Neo-Babylonian Empire… Read More

Shavuot, or Feast of Weeks, marked the time of the wheat harvest in Biblical Israel. It begins in the evening of June 1 and extends until the evening of June… Read More

Yom Hashoah is the Holocaust Remembrance Day. A day to commemorate the approximately six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, and for the Jewish resistance. (Wikipedia)

Passover is a major Jewish holiday commemorating the story of the Israelite’s escape from slavery in Egypt. It specifically refers to God passing over the houses of the Israelites and… Read More