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Jewish Holidays


Celebrate and observe the Jewish holidays: Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Simchat Torah, Hanukkah, Tu Beshevat and more.

Shabbat candles

Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and US

We begin our day with the acknowledgment of ‘Modeh Ani.’

Shavuot 2026: The holiday's enduring call to faith, loyalty, and Jewish purpose

Judaism seeks to bridge the divide between spiritual and physical.

Shavuot 2026: The festival's Jewish mission to elevate the world

ULTRA-ORTHODOX RECRUITS arrive at the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer, early Jan.

What Shavuot teaches about Israel’s haredi military service debate

Shabbat candles

Shavuot, Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and US

TECHNOLOGY KNOWS how to make life easier, but it does not know how to make a person better.

Shavuot 2026: Why the Torah still matters in the age of AI and technology

Nahal HaShofet.

Six Israeli hiking trails and natural sites to reconnect with nature this Shavuot

Engraving: The Song of Miriam (1880), by William Blake Richmond.

Before the song: On Passover, Miriam leads with rhythm when the path is unclear

By NERIA BARR
TAMBOURINE PLAYERS from the ‘Golden Haggadah’ (c. 1320), reflecting a medieval vision of Miriam and the women’s song after the crossing of the sea, The British Library, London

The hidden well: Exploring Miriam's leadership as a source of hope in war's shadow

By RABBA AMIRIT ROSEN
THE YAHUDA HAGGADAH, Southern Western Germany, ca. 1470-80, handwritten on parchment; brown ink, and gold and silver leaf

A voice of praise: Why this Haggadah puts Miriam at the center of the Exodus

By ANNA NIZZA-CAPLAN
Rabbi Daniel Burstyn conducting a Seder on Kibbutz Lotan.

Passover reimagined: How Jews reinterpret freedom at the Seder table

‘Our revered Rosh Yeshiva Rav Yehuda Amital (pictured 2007) gathered us and shared his experiences from the labor camps during World War II.’

Seder night: A crumpled white shirt reveals Passover’s deeper meaning

'Although it is a great joy for us that god took us out of Egypt and redeemed us, it is still painful for us that through this others were destroyed.'

The Seder’s message: Why we diminish our joy for others’ pain on Passover

A MAN wraps fresh matza during Passover in Ashdod in 2016

Passover Seder night: The deeper meaning of matzah and the urgency of the Exodus

Naftali Bennett

Flying frogs, Seder spins: Unique Passover traditions from Jews around the world

Released hostage David Cunio is greeted as he returns to his home in Yavne, last October.

On Passover, former Gaza hostages say freedom 'takes on a different meaning'

Kol HaOt Passover Festival.

The Passover playbook: Jerusalem activities the whole family can rally around during war

By Ronit Ansbacher , JOANNA SHEBSON
An Israeli family enjoys a "Seder" Pesach on the first night of the Jewish holiday of Pesach. April 22, 2024.

We are living the Haggadah: The war gives new meaning to the story of freedom

Fort Sill in Oklahoma, seen 2021. The writer was chaplain there from 1965 to 1967

The Fort Sill Haggadah: A US Army chaplain’s mission to create a Seder for hundreds

By DAVID GEFFEN
Soldiers are ready for anything - including Passover.

IDF's ‘Operation Roaring Matzah’: Keeping Passover, ensuring security for army and country

Let us see what is behind the masquerade.

Purim 2026: Ancient Persia offers lessons of prayer, unity, and courage

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