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Jewish Holidays

The Question: What are the three most important holidays in the Jewish religion and how many holidays are there altogether? The Answer: The two…

The Tradition of Jewish Holidays

The Question: Why do Jewish holidays begin at sundown? There has to be a practical answer other than referring to the traditions of the Jewish Calendar…

U.S. Jewish Population?

The Question: What is the approximate Jewish population in the United States? The Answer: According to the Jewish Virtual Library, there were an…

Notable Jewish Religious Leaders

Elie Wiesel See also People in the NewsRecent Obituaries Related Links Judaism Judaism Primer Branches of Judaism Holidays: Religious and Secular, 2006 Jewish Holidays, 2001â…

liturgy, Jewish

(Encyclopedia) liturgy, Jewish, rites, observances, and procedures of Judaism. Communal prayer, with a quorum of ten men (or in some modern communities, ten people), replaced the priests of the…

Rosh Hashanah - Jewish New Year

Feast of the Trumpets remembers world's creation by David Johnson Rosh Hashanah begins September 13, 2015 Related Links Lost Tribes of Israel Branches of Judaism Yom Kippur…

Rosh Hashanah is Jewish New Year

On Sunday night, Oct. 2, 2016, Jews will begin celebrating one of their most important religious holidays, Rosh Hashanah. It remembers the creation of the world. In Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah means the "…

Hillel, Jewish scholar

(Encyclopedia) Hillel, fl. c.30 b.c.–a.d. 10, Jewish scholar, regarded as the forebear of the later patriarchs who led the Jews of Palestine until c.a.d. 400. The Jerusalem Talmud calls him the…