For many people, the Hebrew language is only familiar from that time they went to their Jewish friend’s Bat Mitzvah back in seventh grade. But members of a new club on campus are looking to change ...
“My family is all practicing Jewish, particularly my mom,” he said. “I had a bar mitzvah and am a member (at Temple Beth Israel, a Reform synagogue in Pomona, California) of a congregation. I love my ...
Passover — or pesach in Hebrew — celebrates the Israelites’ exodus from slavery in ancient Egypt to their new homeland in Israel. The Jewish holiday began the evening of April 5 and concluded April 13 ...
Jews are commanded to hear the Torah recited by the king at the Temple. What happens when neither of those exists? (JTA) — Every seven years, in ancient times, Jewish men, women, and children would ...
“We were in Greece for Sukkot and it was Shabbat … someone in my extended family looked at their phone and said, ‘Something crazy is happening in Israel …’” “First it was just disbelief … This ...
Every seven years, in ancient times, Jewish men, women, and children would gather at the Temple on the first day of Sukkot to hear the king of Jerusalem read aloud from the Torah. In 2022, there’s no ...
(JTA) — Every seven years, in ancient times, Jewish men, women, and children would gather at the Temple on the first day of Sukkot to hear the king of Jerusalem read aloud from the Torah. In 2022, ...