Jewish holidays are full of tradition and rich in history. Some focus on solemn occasions while others are lively and festive. Read on to learn why each holiday is celebrated.
Monday, February 15, 2016
Monday, February 8, 2016
QUIZ: What Jewish Holiday Are You?
By Holly Lebowitz Rossi for Kveller
From Yom Kippur to Rosh Hashanah to Passover, there’s tons of Jewish holidays out there to choose from. Which one are you most like? Take the quiz to find out!
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From Yom Kippur to Rosh Hashanah to Passover, there’s tons of Jewish holidays out there to choose from. Which one are you most like? Take the quiz to find out!
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Monday, February 1, 2016
The Gentiles Who Act Like Jews
With no Jewish holidays coming up immediately, we bring you some articles of interest. Enjoy.
By Ilana E. Strauss for Tablet Magazine
A man with a brambly salt-and-pepper beard, a kippah on his head, and circular glasses balanced on his nose stood behind a podium, lecturing on the parasha, the weekly Torah reading, in a southern twang. He was not a rabbi. He wasn’t even Jewish.
In front of him, an audience of about 20 sat in rows, listening attentively. Some wore head wraps and dresses suitable for a wedding, and others looked like they came in off the street. One man boasted neck tattoos and a gauge earring.
I was the only Jew in the room, but everyone else was here to study Torah. I was here to study them.
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By Ilana E. Strauss for Tablet Magazine
The Gentiles Who Act Like Jews
Who are these non-Jews practicing Orthodox Judaism?
A man with a brambly salt-and-pepper beard, a kippah on his head, and circular glasses balanced on his nose stood behind a podium, lecturing on the parasha, the weekly Torah reading, in a southern twang. He was not a rabbi. He wasn’t even Jewish.
In front of him, an audience of about 20 sat in rows, listening attentively. Some wore head wraps and dresses suitable for a wedding, and others looked like they came in off the street. One man boasted neck tattoos and a gauge earring.
I was the only Jew in the room, but everyone else was here to study Torah. I was here to study them.
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Monday, January 25, 2016
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Honi the Circle Maker: A Tale for Tu biShvat
Tu biShvat begins at sundown this Sunday evening and is celebrated Monday January 25
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Tu Bishvat
Tu Bishvat is a minor holiday that is sometimes called the New Year for Trees. It comes at the very beginning of spring, when the rains are plentiful and the trees blossom in Israel (though in some parts of America there’s still snow on the ground at this “springtime” celebration). The words “Tu Bishvat” literally mean the 15th of the month of Shvat.
Today, many people mark this holiday by planting saplings and participating in a meal that evokes the Passover seder, where fruits, nuts, and wine or grape juice are on the menu.
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Monday, January 11, 2016
Ivanka Trump Talks Being a Mogul, a Mother, and More
With no Jewish holidays coming up immediately, we bring you profiles of some well known and some not so well known Jews. Enjoy.
By Tim Teeman for Town & Country Magazine
Absolutely the daughter of her father—for whom the man is the brand and the brand the man—Ivanka Trump arrives on the 25th floor of the Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan wearing a dress and shoes from her eponymous label.
The frock, like its crisply poised wearer, is beautiful: black, fitted elegantly around her growing baby bump, with artful patterning. The shoes, black stilettos adorned with conservative tassels, are sex and business in a single vessel. Later an assistant will bring Trump her handbag, also from her label: black again, with a splash of leopard print.
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By Tim Teeman for Town & Country Magazine
With the presidential election entering its next phase, Ivanka Trump has turned into one of her father's greatest assets. Though she has tried to stay on the sidelines, her emergence as a modern-day superwoman—and soon-to-be mother of three—gives his detractors the reassurance that he has gotten at least one thing supremely right.
Absolutely the daughter of her father—for whom the man is the brand and the brand the man—Ivanka Trump arrives on the 25th floor of the Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan wearing a dress and shoes from her eponymous label.
The frock, like its crisply poised wearer, is beautiful: black, fitted elegantly around her growing baby bump, with artful patterning. The shoes, black stilettos adorned with conservative tassels, are sex and business in a single vessel. Later an assistant will bring Trump her handbag, also from her label: black again, with a splash of leopard print.
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