Jewish Holiday Customs

Let’s travel to Calcutta – a bustling port city in India where 5,000 Jews once lived. Today the community numbers in the tens, but their tr...

In the same way that email has revived the art of letter writing, the electronic age has revitalized the custom of sending Rosh Hashana card...

How can we take a traumatic event and give it a hopeful spin? Ask Italian Jews and they’ll give you the answer. Next week when you read Eich...

I know, I know. School’s coming to a close and for now there are no more holidays on the horizon. All the more reason we should take a loo...

Did you or your school over-buy Matza for Passover? A Moroccan Shavuot custom ripe with symbolism will help diminish the number of Matza she...

In another week we will be celebrating Lag B’Omer – the 33rd day of the Omer. The Omer is known as period of mourning which began with the d...

Tafur Alecha/Alei’ch. That’s the Hebrew idiom for “it’s made for you” and the annual International Bible Contest held in Jerusalem every I...