holidays

17th of Tammuz

Reaching for your morning coffee? Think again! Today is the 17th of Tammuz, a minor fast day.Today’s fast commemorates the ...

I’m currently in Vienna as part of a delegation of (youngish) Jews from New York. The trip is being organized ...

For one holiday out of the year, we take a break from feasting on meat and move over to the ...

Today is Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day), which celebrates the 1967 reunification of Jerusalem. Click here to listen to the actual ...

Not sure how I missed this, but thanks to Mark Berch for pointing out this story about Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz ...

This Yom Haatzmaut, Israeli artists have a lot to celebrate. As JTA’s Ben Harris recently reported, Israeli art is doing ...

Next week we’ll celebrate Yom Haatzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, and before the partying starts, we thought we’d spend this week ...

Over at Contentions, Hillel Halkin has posted a thought about one of the Passover Haggadah’s most difficult texts: shfokh hamatkha, ...

Ima is cleaning.When I was pregnant, I ate saltine crackers in bed to ward off the morning sickness. When my ...

Here are some great sites to get your kids or students excited about Passover. Babaganewz has a terrific magic trick, ...