Happy Passover! Passover (Pesah) is an important festival in Jewish communities, and it commemorates the departure of Israelites from slavery in Egypt. It is observed over eight days, the first two...
Shavuot, also known as the Feast of Weeks, is one of the three major festivals in Judaism, along with Passover and Sukkot. The holiday falls fifty days after Passover, hence the name "Festival of...
Hanukkah 2021 begins in the evening of November 28th! We asked Casandra, the president of JQueer, how they are celebrating during this holiday season....
Yom Hashoah (“the Day of the Shoah”) was established in 1951 by the Knesset, the Parliament of Israel, as a day of commemoration for the roughly six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. In...
I remember vividly the account given by Elie Wiesel, in his book Night.1 He described the execution of three Jews at Auschwitz, including a child. They stood on three chairs and the nooses were...