Traditions

Tzedakah is from the word meaning righteousness. A tzadek is a righteous person.

A chupah is a large covering that is often used at weddings to cover the bride and groom.

A tallit is a prayer shawl. Tallitot (plural of tallit) are rectangular in shape and have fringes called tzitzits at the four corners.

The word Halakhah comes from the root word halakh which means “to go” and it is the name given to the collective teachings of Jewish laws which involve the regulation of various aspects of Jewish life including the Oral Torah-teachings that were associated with the Torah and used to explain it but are not explicitly presented by the Torah.

LUNAR-SOLAR CALENDAR.
The Jewish calendar is based mainly on the phases of the moon; but it also regulates itself to a lesser degree by the sun.

Prior to the Holocaust, Yiddish, a language more resembling Middle High German than anything else phonetically, was widely spoken by 11 million people, not as a national language or local tongue, but a unique language uniting Jews of various nationalities worldwide.

The Yiddish language is a western Germanic oral and written dialect used by the Ashkenazi Jews of central and eastern Europe for the past millennium.