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The week of Yom Kippur, you may recall, I published a column about a Yiddish letter, written by a young soldier in the Russian army to his family during World War I, that a reader asked me to decipher.
I have no idea where or when the tradition of eating brisket on Chanukah began. It probably started because brisket was a food saved for celebrations, and Chanukah was certainly that: a celebration of miracles. My grandmother made brisket for Pesach and other holidays, but I really don't remember it.
Rosh Hashanah remains the sticking point in settling next year's Lee County school calendar, and the lack of consensus might prompt a committee to...
Hanukkah, perhaps the most widely celebrated Jewish holiday in America, begins Dec. 11.
It is only the third U.S. stamp to commemorate the Jewish holiday, which begins Dec. 11.
Somehow someone’s gotten the idea lately that Thanksgiving is all about food. Well, no, not exactly. It’s the successor to a whole variety of traditional festivals going back at least to the Jewish Sukkot (sometimes transliterated as Succoth).
The lighting of the first candle for Hanukkah this year will be at sundown Dec. 11, and all eight candles and the shamus will be burning brightly on Dec. 18.Hanukkah is the Jewish holiday that is also called the festival of lights, and celebrates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after its desecration by the Hellenist Syrians in the second century B.C.A small amount of oil to light the ...
Students from Para Los Niños and Heschel Day School perform at The Federation’s Sukkot celebration on skid row.
For the past five years, Temple Bat Yahm member John Bernstein has spent the day after the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur overseeing the distribution of several tons of food, which the congregation amasses each year in a large diesel truck outside the temple.
Monday, November 16 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store *Cory Doctorow, Makers 7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith Steve Buckley, A Wicked Good Year: How the Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics Turned the Hub of the Universe into the Capital of Sports Tuesday, November 17 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store Maxim D. Shrayer, Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books Anita Silvey, Everything I Need to ...
COPLEY — Members of the third-grade class at Spring Garden Waldorf School are shown building a sukkah to celebrate the Jewish holiday Sukkot. The holiday commemorates the 40 years that the Israelites wandered in the desert, searching for their promised land, and has evolved into a harvest festival.
On the night before Yom Kippur in September, Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman stood before his Orthodox congregation, in a room crowded with men wearing black hats and women wearing sheitels, and moderated a panel discussion among five Orthodox Jews who said they had been the victims of sexual abuse at the hands of other Orthodox Jews. The rabbi regularly uses his pulpit to preach against the evils ...
NORWALK- Three Westport residents were honored at Congregation Beth El in Norwalk on Oct. 11 during Simchat Torah services.
Children attending the Chabad of Greenwich preschool raised high their lulavs and etrogs when they visited seniors at The Mews senior residence in Greenwich during the Sukkot holiday last month.
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Stanford University’s Jewish community celebrated the first night of Sukkot by eating the traditional festive meal inside the sukkah they put up every year.
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