Jewish Ritual Rescue What Happens to Judaica When Our Kids Don’t Want It? Last year in a local Goodwill store I found a very old Kiddush cup. It sat on a shelf crowded with an assortment of pewter and silver goblets and was so tarnished that I nearly missed the...
Tisha B’Av – A Jewish Memorial Day to Honor the Memory of the Jews of the Inquisition Tisha B’Av is a day of Jewish mourning. It falls on the 9th day in the Hebrew month of Av which, this year begins at sundown on Monday, August 12 and continues through...
Zachor! Memories of my firstHolocaust Memorial Day in Italy January 27, 1945 marks the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp where one million Jews were tortured, starved and murdered.. Sixty years later, in November 2005 the United Nations General Assembly...
Sephardic Traditions at the Passover Seder Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews – What’s the Difference? There is a division within the Jewish community that began thousands of years ago and continues to this day. It is not a division between religious denominations such as...
Our Chanukah lights are now a sweet memory but thanks to Rabbi Chaim (Brothers for Life- Achim L’Chaim), sends a historic Chanukah photo and shares its special message. Rabbi Chaim writes: At first glance the photograph below looks almost quaint, an old black...
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