Jewish and Israeli Holidays
A man hurled a heavy rock into the window of the women’s gallery of a synagogue in Gdansk, Poland, during prayers at the end of Yom Kippur, the Dy of Atonment, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
Just after the start of the holiday, a 26-year-old Arab from Qalandiya rushed at a Jewish man, knocking him to the ground, and ran towards police officers waving what is reported to be a screwdriver.
As holiest day of the Jewish calendar begins on Tuesday night, Israeli life grounds to a halt.
For 30 years, the JDC and its network of volunteers has provided aid and traditional Rosh Hashanah treats to impoverished Jews across the former Soviet Union.
“They see our strength, and they see our commitment to defend our state—to develop it, and become an economic, technological, military and intelligence power, and this brings us friends,” said the Israeli prime minister just days before the start of Rosh Hashanah.
AEPi, with the help of Synagogue Connect, built an online database that allows college students to search for congregations within a radius of a location of their choice.
A task force will begin operating at Ben-Gurion International Airport in the next few days, charged with preventing the import of three of the four species necessary for the traditional celebration of Sukkot.
Elderly citizens who would otherwise be alone will be treated to a multi-day stay in Israel, where they will be housed, fed and treated to social activities tied to the holiday celebrations.
The inaugural “YP Meet-Up at the Israel Shoe-Box” will take place on Sept. 10 after the sermon and include a short kiddush, complete with apples and honey.
Ordained Chabad rabbi and cantor Aryeh Leib Hurwitz has traveled the world honing his voice and performing skills, and is now part of an effort to revive the classic tradition of “chazzonus,” the quasi-operatic Jewish music of more than a century ago.
Food abstention and restrictions are ancient practices whose purpose and benefit span across the three Abrahamic faiths—Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
The rare artifact depicts the finely crafted head of a horned animal and delicate filigree work, and is believed to date back to the second or third century BCE.
