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Sukkah City was a public art and architecture competition planned for New York City's Union Square Park. The winning design was chosen as the City Sukkah, to stand, starting on September 22, 2010, for the requisite seven days of the harvest holiday. A committee of art critics and celebrated architects selected the 12 finalists from a field of ...
The holiday marks the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days and leads up to Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. Jewish New Year is this week. What is Rosh Hashana?
Iranian Jews, end of Passover holiday. 27 Nisan sunset, April 8 – nightfall, April 9, 2021 Yom HaShoah: Public holiday in Israel. Moved to 26 or 28 Nisan when the 27th falls on Friday or Sunday respectively, interfering with Shabbat. Movable April 10, 2021 Shabbat Mevorchim: Shabbat preceding and beginning a week containing a Rosh Chodesh: 1 Iyar
Every few years, the Jewish calendar adds a leap month, which is determined by a 19-year rotation called the Metonic cycle. This keeps the high holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur aligned ...
In this week's episode of Holiday Heroes, we're spending some time with Dorot, a New York City-based organization that provides services for the elderly.
In Jewish religious law , Jews are commanded to rest on Shabbat, and refrain from performing certain types of work. Some of the activities are considered to be prohibited by biblical law (the 39 Melachot ), while others became prohibited later on, due to rabbinic decrees.
Liebman’s Kosher Deli’s Complete Kosher Deli Dinner. When Joseph Liebman opened Liebman’s Kosher Deli in 1953, there were over 100 Jewish delis in the Bronx.
In the 20th century, Simhat Torah symbolized the public assertion of Jewish identity. [10] The Jews of the Soviet Union, in particular, would celebrate the festival en masse in the streets of Moscow. On October 14, 1973, more than 100,000 Jews took part in a post–Simhat Torah rally in New York City on behalf of refuseniks and Soviet Jewry. [11]