Jewish holidays
The annual cycle of festivals and commemorations is a strategy for national cohesion.
And an ancient sect’s version of all-night study.
Three-hundred years of omer art.
A North African post-Passover festival and its songs.
A celebration of the Jewish connection with Jerusalem.
What a news item about a pre-holiday chicken shortage reveals.
Used by pilgrims on their way to the Temple.
Originally, Jews didn’t kindle lights to celebrate the holiday.
Heshvan is the bitterest month.
The real meaning of Shmini Atseret.
The writers failed to sympathize with their own characters’ commitment to clan and tradition.
The Sabbath is universal, but the holidays speak to Jewish particularity.
The elephant in the room that researchers have ignored.
The brothers who wrote two of the best-known Jewish melodies early in the last century.