holidays

Wishing y’all a year full of health, happiness, and hope, wherever you live! 

A couple of years ago I was walking to synagogue with my two boys on the morning of Rosh Hashanah, ...

This special holiday post comes from guest blogger Rabbi Matt Rosenberg, Executive Director of Hillel at Texas A&M University. Thank ...

How Jewish is the Hebrew Calendar? When we use a Hebrew word to identify a period of time, we may ...

On this Memorial Day, we recall all those who have given their lives defending our freedom.Throughout American history, Jews have ...

Shavuot is a holiday often easily overlooked- many of us may not even realize that it has already passed!  Shavuot ...

The month of May, known as “Liberation Month,” contains Cinco de Mayo (celebrating Mexico’s liberating victory over the French in ...

It is interesting that as we are in the final countdown to Shavuot we start the reading the Book of Numbers. ...

After months of anticipation, I arrived in a slightly damp and chilly Israel for the annual training of summer shlichim ...

According to Jewish Law it’s the practice to refrain from getting married between Passover and Shavuot – until Lag B’Omer (Shulchan Aruch 493:1). ...