Sukkot
This harvest festival is named for the temporary dwellings, called Sukkot, decorated with fruit and vegetables, set up to recall the booths in which the Jews lived during their journey…
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Jewish Holiday
Hanukkah
In 167 BCE, the Maccabees led a band of Jews in a successful battle against the occupying Syrian-Greeks, who had desecrated the Second Temple’s eternal light. Miraculously, one day’s supply…
Tu B’Shvat
Tu BiShvat is a Jewish holiday occurring on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat. It is also called Rosh HaShanah La'Ilanot, literally "New Year of the Trees".…
Purim
Megillah reading & lunch Sunday March 24th @ 11:00am at Michael & Rabbi Helene's home. It will be a dairy lunch and we are asking for fruit, desserts and salads.…
Passover
Tues. 4/23/24 congregational 2nd night seder. Passover is an 8-day festival celebrating the Israelites' Exodus from Egyptian slavery. The most important event in Jewish history is marked by eating matzah…
Israel Independence day
Israelis observe Yom Ha'atzmaut to commemorate the Israeli Declaration of Independence, which was proclaimed by future Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion on behalf of the Yishuv on 14 May 1948.The mood outside of Ben-Gurion's residence…
Lag Baomer
Lag BaOmer, also Lag B'Omer or Lag LaOmer, is a Jewish religious holiday celebrated on the 33rd day of the Counting of the Omer, which occurs on the 18th day…
Shavuot
The festival of Shavuot (or Shavuos, in Ashkenazi usage; Shabhuʿoth in Classical and Mizrahi Hebrew Hebrew: שבועות, lit. “Weeks”) is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the…
Tisha B’Av
Tisha B'Av, the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av, is recognized as the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. It is a day of mourning for tragedies across Jewish…
Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: ראש השנה), (literally “head of the year”), is the Jewish New Year. It is the first of the High Holidays or Yamim Noraim (“Days of Awe”), celebrated ten…
Tashlich
The goal of Tashlich is to cast both our sins and the Heavenly prosecutor (a.k.a. the Satan) into the Heavenly sea. And when we shake our clothes after the Tashlich prayer, this is…
Torah: (Genesis 50:14-26) Haftarah: (Jonah 1-4)
From The Rabbi’s Study…Shabbat v’Yom Kippur October 9,10, 2024/9,10 Tishrei 5785 This Sabbath is Yom Kippur, even though Yom Kippur is our “Holiest” of the Jewish holidays, it is Shabbat…