It is Rosh Hoshanah. So for all of us Jews around here - it is new year's. So happy new year to you. It is 5774 for us. Pretty cool. Here is an article from the Huffington Post ( Read more... )

It's time to celebrate Hannukah.

I lit the candles right at sundown. Well I thought it was sundown. It was clouded over so it was a good guess. Dark anyways.

( The First Night of Hanukkah at my humble abode... )

So I missed your Yom Kippor factoid so I will make up for it with Sukkot! The festival of booths.

Overview: Sukkot basically commemorates the period of time after the Jews left Egypt and escaped slavery. They wandered in the desert and had to live in temporary dwellings or sukkahs. In observance of this, Jews recreate the structure and dwell in ( Read more... )