Jewish Holidays & Festivals: A Young Person's Guide to the Stories, Practices and Prayers of Jewish Celebrations
lilSugar (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
You might have noticed the grocery shelves are full of chocolate turkeys and red, white and green candies already. In line with their sweet treat selection, we here on LilSugar are ready to showcase your yummy holiday babes! Take old pictures of your precious lil Thanksgiving turkeys or the wee ones dressed up in their Christmas best and load them up to the Sugarbabies group ! As we approach the holidays,...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
By Paul Grimaldi The number of shoppers planning to buy Christmas and Hanukkah gifts with cash or debit cards in 2009 is expected to rise, according to a survey released Tuesday by the National Retail Federation. One quarter of U.S. shoppers said they expect to use cash, up 9.1 percent from the November-December period of 2008. The number of shoppers using credit cards is expected to decline 10.1 percent...
ChickSpeak (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Oh, it’s the most wonderful time of year! Thanksgiving is in a few weeks, and soon it will be time to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. These holidays often bring a lot of fun and excitement, but a bunch of stress and anxiety too. And this joyful time of year can be straining on relationships [...]
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
F or the nearly 1,000 people who gathered at Congregation Sha’aray Shalom in Hingham this fall for the Jewish New Year, it was a time not only to celebrate the holiday but to remember the temple’s far humbler beginning 50 years ago.
Shiloh Musings (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Posted by Jewish Israel In its annual International Religious Freedoms Report on Israel and the “Occupied Territories” , The U.S. State Department accused Israel of “governmental and legal discrimination against non-Jews and non-Orthodox streams of Judaism”. A disproportionate amount of the report is dedicated to depicting Torah traditions and Orthodox Judaism as oppressive,...
J O S H U A P U N D I T (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Hallow'een ( 'hallowed even' ) has an interesting background. It's original Celtic name was Samhain, and the Church co-opted it to make accepting the new religion more palatable for the natives, turning it into All Saint's Day. I was never that much into dress up, but I always liked it when I was a single gentleman because it was one day I could reliably expect to have 'adventures.' To me,the costumes...
South Carolina Family Law Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
As the fall air turns crisp and cold and the days grow shorter, we are reminded that the holidays are just around the corner. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas Eve, Christmas are often the most celebrated and traditional family holidays, and now is a good time to make sure that you and your co-parent are on the same page. Discussing the schedule early will help insure that there will be no last minute...
ON THE FRINGE—AL TZITZIT (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
For me and my husband, becoming Orthodox Jews would certainly pose some challenges, but not all the challenges are obvious. "Shver tzu zein a Yid, It's hard to be a Jew" (not sure about my Yiddish transliteration) is certainly an obvious challenge. Giving up eating in non-kosher restaurants and becoming much stricter about kashrut in general, and giving up taking motorized transportation...
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Editor's Note: Guest blogger Joanna Ware is a queer Jewish community organizer, activist, and rabble rouser at Keshet , a Boston-based non-profit building community locally and creating change nationally, working for the full inclusion of GLBT Jews in Jewish communities. In the days leading up to last weekend's National Equality March, I spent quite a bit of time considering my Judaism. I am a queer...
Life In The One Percent (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
I'm trying to decide whether my participation in the High Holidays has made a difference to Me. And I think that it has, because I feel different. This weekend was the shabbat of Simchat Torah - the day to download our Surrounding Light for the whole year. The wisdom of Kabbalah is based on the principle of sharing which is promoted through many religions - Christianity promotes this as Do Unto Others...
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
This Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. Rev Meeter and Rabbi Andy Bachman will lead an interfaith study session about homelessness in the Beth Elohim's Sukkah, a temporary dwelling built out branches and agriculture. Jews are expected to eat and sleep in their Sukkah during the holiday, which lasts a week or so. According to Judaism 101, Sukkot is a joyous holiday that comes right on the heels of Yom Kippur...
PaleoJudaica.com (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
THE SAMARITANS are celebrating Sukkot too: Ancient Samaritans celebrate different Sukkot in West Bank by Saud Abu Ramada, Hua Chunyu, Emad Drimly NABLUS, West Bank, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- As Jewish people all around Israel are celebrating their traditional feast of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles), in northern West Bank, Samaritans, a small religious sect who consider themselves descendants of the ancient...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
As Jewish people all around Israel are celebrating their traditional feast of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles), in northern West Bank, Samaritans, a small religious sect who consider themselves descendants of the ancient northern Kingdom of Israel, are also celebrating Sukkot, but in a somehow different way. In the village of Kiryat Luza on Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus, the Samaritan...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Both Jews and Muslims celebrated holidays in September 2009. However, the United States Consulate in Jerusalem – America's representative in Israel's capital – chose to focus entirely on Islam this year, while ignoring the Jewish holidays of Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur.2009/10/3
Jewlicious (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
The upcoming Esencia de Judaismo/Essence of Judaism Sukkot Celebration embodies the essence of the biblical phrase, “Sukkat Shalom/Tabernacle of Peace.” A project of the American Jewish Committee, this event brings together Christian Latino leaders with rabbis sharing with them the beauty and meaning of Judaism, the importance of a secure Jewish homeland in Israel and the [...]
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