holidays

Cantillation or trope has always mesmerized me. I know of no other religion that has a similar system for chanting ...

The fast day of Tisha B’av begins tonight. Like Yom Kippur, this fast lasts a full 26 hours. Argh. I ...

Tomorrow, Independence Day, is important for American Jews, but it is not only our freedom we should be celebrating.On July ...

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 ...