Passover
PASSOVER is the joyous Jewish festival of freedom that celebrates the Exodus of the Jews from their bondage in Egypt. Beginning on the fifteenth day of the spring month of Nisan, the festival...
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There is a portion of the seder text that talks about how the different sons respond to the story. There is the wise son, the contrary son, the simple son and so forth, each of them talking to his ...
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In bad news for its religious Jewish supporters, an Israeli pro-marijuana party announced Tuesday that pot is forbidden on Passover.Cannabis is among the substances Jews are forbidden to consume du...
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews burned bread and other leavened foods in communal bonfires Monday, completing preparations for Passover.The weeklong holiday commemorates the flight of the ancient Israelites fr...
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Dressed in white and spattered in blood, members of the tiny Samaritan sect gathered until the early hours of Tuesday for one of the Holy Land's most colorful religious ceremonies _ the nighttime P...
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Fairfax, the largest Jewish neighborhood in Los Angeles, is
quiet on Monday evening. The delis and shops that usually keep the
area bustling with commerce have barred their doors and hung sig...
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It wasn't your typical fire. When police responded to a report that something smelled of smoke in the middle of the night, they found an old school bus that had been converted into a supersized ove...
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Investigators said Tuesday they hadn't found any evidence of arson in the fire that destroyed an anti-Zionist Jewish group's synagogue.The fire gutted the Neturei Karta's three-story, century-old s...
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