Holidays & Festivals

The Jewish holiday of Sukkot begins this Wednesday night and we have a few pictures to mark the festivities. For the past four years, the Jewish community of Katowice, Poland, has built a sukka (a temporary "hut" used during the week-long holiday) in the courtyard...

[caption id="attachment_10979" align="alignleft" width="300"] Seder in Krakow March 24 (photo credit: Nissan Tzur)[/caption] KRAKOW – Seventy years after most of Polish Jewry died in the Holocaust, it seems that Jewish life in Poland is experiencing a revival. More than 150 people gathered at the Jewish Community Center...

Perhaps more than any other holiday on the Jewish calendar, Hanukah celebrates the determined survival of the Jewish people. Over two millennia ago a small band of fighters, led by Judah the Maccabee, fought against the Hellenist rulers of ancient Israel who sought to assimilate...

[caption id="attachment_8937" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Grandpa and granddaughter preparing for Passover in Kaifeng"][/caption] How do you celebrate Passover in China? With gefilte fish, charoset, chicken soup with dumplings, and six liters of raisin wine! Hebrew University graduate student Shulamit Gershovich has been spending the semester studying at a...

I want to share with you a story related to the festival of Hanukkah. As a child, my mother didn't teach me anything about the holiiday, its history or the custom of lighting candles each night as part of the celebration. You see, originally, Donato Manduzio,...

Among millions celebrating Rosh Hashana this week are some 1,000 residents of China's oldest Jewish community Among the many Israelis and Jews around the world who will welcome the Jewish New Year are also 1,000 residents of China's oldest Jewish community.