Holy Days Articles
Israel's Independence Day
Not published yetOut of the tears of the Shoah God birthed the modern nation of Israel. On May 14, 1948 David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel an independent nation. Israel's Independence Day, Yom Ha-Atzmaut, is celebrated each year on the fifth day of the Hebrew month of Iyar. In 1897, Theodor Herzl called together the first Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland to promote the idea of the Jewish people having their own country in the land of Israel.
Giving Thanks for the Miracle of Survival
Not published yet(CNN) - ...almost 70 years after his village in Poland was liberated by the Soviet army, Leon Gersten is meeting the man who is the Oskar Schindler of his own life: Czeslaw Polziec. ... Polziec is Catholic. His family secretly sheltered Gersten in rural Poland for two years during World War II.
As though such a reunion between survivor and rescuer were not emotional enough, this one is taking place Wednesday on the eve of Hanukkah, which coincides this year with Thanksgiving. Two celebrations of gratitude.
The Passover is a very important Holy Day in Jewish history. The Passover begins the day before the feast of unleavened bread, on the 14th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan. It commemorates God's deliverance from the bondage of Egypt. God had commanded Moses to go to the Pharaoh of Egypt and demand that he let God's people go free. The Pharaoh refused, and God brought 9 plagues upon the Egyptian people.
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The Symbolic Foods at a Passover Seder Part 2Rabbi Ted Falcon and David Blatner
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The Symbolic Foods at a Passover Seder Part 1Rabbi Ted Falcon and David Blatner
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Happy Purim!Dry Bones