Holidays

A 35-year-old mother of two collapsed in Acre during the traditional Mimouna celebration at 12:45 AM Sunday.

Ambassador Korniychuk stressed that the Ukrainian side is ready to provide full assistance in organizing the current Chassidic pilgrimage."

Police spokesperson Angelica Israelsson Silfver told Swedish TV that police will assign "extra supervision" around the synagogue and other Jewish places following the incident.

An estimated 5,500 spent the night in the designated parking lots of the Nature and Parks Authority on the third day of the Passover holiday week.

Presumably, the change in police attitude regarding open Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount has to do with the man who runs the police these days, Minister of Public Security Amir Ohana (Likud).

"Nice to see a child's kite being used for its intended purpose for a change."

Even the animals in the zoo are celebrating Pesach, at the Ramat Gan Safari.

The special event, which is usually held only once on Passover and once on Sukkot, was held on both Monday and Tuesday this Passover.

The idea for a mass ceremony of the Birkat Cohanim at the Western Wall was initiated by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Geffner in the summer of 1970.

"We three peoples all take stock in that very [intertwined] history, in those shared values, and of our own personal individual strength of faith."

We wish all of our readers a joyous and kosher Passover holiday!

“Each year we see that the number of emergency calls received by our organization rises dramatically over the holiday."

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“It is very exciting to see such demand for Passover programming in the Gulf this year.”

One option discussed was the possibility of reducing the limit on gatherings to less than 20 people.

There was also an emergency meeting of the Lakewood school board.

"I feel so overjoyed at having saved this man’s life on Purim. It felt to me like I had won the lottery.”

Endangered and locally extinct animals mentioned in the Bible are bred here for possible reintroduction into the Negev desert.

In order to prevent Purim gatherings in Jerusalem, bus and train traffic to and from the city has been blocked starting Saturday night.

“There’s no corona, the corona is ended,” sang one partygoer.

Purim has a unique status of celebrating two days of the Jewish holiday.

The significant changes in the practice of Purim apply mainly to the surrounded cities, out of which we know for certain only about Jerusalem and Jericho.

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein (Likud) attacked the participants in those parties, saying "the jump in morbidity will be registered in your name."

“If the guidelines are not observed, we may find ourselves again facing the closure of educational institutions."

"2,500 years ago another Persian tyrant tried to destroy the Jewish people and just as he failed then – you will fail today.”

According to experts, there are very few extant Esther scrolls from the medieval period in general, and from the fifteenth century in particular.

“The Western Wall is a unique ecological environment that supports its own life forms.”

Edelstein put it: "Those who celebrate too much on Purim may shut us down on Passover."

The health ministry wants to postpone the opening of commerce by ten days, while Blue&White demand starting a staggered reopening immediately.