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Rosh HaShanah

Rosh HaShanah

by | Sep 28, 2016 | Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur

Rosh HaShanah includes “Tashlich” Throwing Sins Away   Back in the day, on one of the first two days of Rosh HaShanah, Jews traditionally walked together to a stream, pond, lake, river, or even an ocean. The idea was to find a body of flowing water, preferably...
Kol Nidre

Kol Nidre

by | Oct 6, 2016 | Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur

Yom  Kippur Begins with Kol Nidre (in English and Italian) “Kol Nidre,” These are  Aramaic words that begin a Jewish ritual that we Jews have done for 1,000 (one thousand) years.   Kol Nidre sono  le parole aramaiche con le quali comincia un ritulale ebraico che noi...
Sukkot

Sukkot

by | Oct 6, 2016 | Sukkot - Feast of the Tabernacles

Symbols of Sukkot The October Holiday That Binds Jews Together My daughter, Rosie called Purim, “Jewish Halloween,” and she called Sukkot, “Jewish camping.”  And building the sukkah, eating in it and sometimes even sleeping in it is really like...