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Spanish and Portuguese Jews still do not observe them. Hanukkah. Only one set of Hanukkah lights is lit in each household. The shammash is generally lit after the other Hanukkah lights and after singing Hannerot hallalu, instead of being used to light them (which would be impractical, given that the lights are traditionally oil lamps rather ...
Mexican American scholar Ilan Stavans, co-author of the “The Mexican Dreidel,” a children's Hanukkah book, talks about Hanukkah's significance and Jewish Latino heritage.
Hanukkah is one of the most famous holidays in the Jewish calendar, but here are facts about the Festival of Lights that you may not have known.
Full Hallel (Hebrew: הלל שלם, romanized: Hallel shalem, lit. 'complete Hallel') consists of all six Psalms of the Hallel, in their entirety.It is a Jewish prayer recited on the first two nights and days of Pesach (only the first night and day in Israel), on Shavuot, all seven days of Sukkot, on Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, and on the eight days of Hanukkah.
The Prayer in a Siddur from the city of Fürth, 1738, from the collections of the National Library of Israel The prayer as a part of the candle lighting blessing, Moorocan Jewish variant Al HaNissim alternatively V'al HaNissim [ 1 ] ( [ו]עַל הַנִסִּים , "[and] on the miracles") is an addition to the Amidah and Birkat Hamazon on ...
Hanukkah is one of the most popular Jewish religious observances, but has different dates each year. While Christians celebrate Christmas every year on Dec. 25, Jews can celebrate Hanukkah as ...
Following the Expulsion, Jews spoke of "the Ladino" to mean the word-for-word translation of the Bible into Old Spanish. By extension, it came to mean that style of Spanish generally in the same way that (among Kurdish Jews) Targum has come to mean Judeo-Aramaic and (among Jews of Arabic-speaking background) sharḥ has come to mean Judeo-Arabic .
Although Hanukkah is considered a minor Jewish holiday, Its proximity to Christmas gives it weight. The “Festival of Lights” helped link American Jews to their Christian neighbors while still ...