For many people, Shabbat is a distinctive day throughout every season of the year. During the summer, it can be an extra special time – here are seven things you can do for rest, reflection, and fun.
Ready or not, Passover will be here soon! Here are seven resources from ReformJudaism.org and elsewhere in the Jewish world you can use to enrich your celebration of the Festival of Freedom.
Purim, a Jewish holiday in late winter, celebrates Queen Esther and her cousin Mordechai and how they saved the Jews of Persia from an extermination plot by Haman, the king’s vizier. Central to the observance is a public reading – usually in the synagogue – of the Book of Esther (M’gillat Esther, the M’gillah), which tells the story of the holiday.