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As she wrote to me later, "Besides being easy to make and using all Biblical ingredients [all the items in the salad are mentioned at least once in the Bible], I like that this salad also has an echo of Passover haroset. We count the days from Passover...
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Pentecost is the least commercial of the church's holidays. But its proclamation is vitally important and its power is deeply spiritual. power. It is good news to celebrate. Pentecost has its roots in the fertile soil of Judaism. Ancient Israel observed...
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Alan Adler, owner at the Streit’s Matzo factory on the lower east side of New York, poses for a photograph on May 9, 2012. Aron Streit, Inc. is a kosher food company based in New York City, founded in 1916 by Aron Streit, a Jewish immigrant from Austria. View Photo »
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Canadian citizens who live in other countries can vote in this election. Please ensure that family members visiting for Yom Tov (Passover) go to vote.
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Pentecost originally was a Jewish holiday known as the Feast of Weeks, observed 50 days after Passover. It became known as Pentecost, a Greek word meaning 50th. The celebration marked the end of the spring harvest, when God’s people thanked him for the...
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All the rest is commentary. Now go study." Shavuoth may have had its beginning in the annual agricultural cycle, but today it is part of the "spiritual cycle" of the three pilgrimage holidays leading us from the redemption from the spiritual wilderness...
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The disciples of Jesus were all together in Jerusalem after his ascension, following the Lord’s instructions not to leave the city. They were waiting for “the gift promised by the Father.” Jesus told them, “In a few days, you will be baptized with the...
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A worker at Streit’s Matzo factory on the lower east side of New York on May 9, 2012. Aron Streit, Inc. is a kosher food company based in New York City, founded in 1916 by Aron Streit, a Jewish immigrant from Austria. The factory usually bakes about... View Photo »
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Encouraging Canadian citizens to vote, like students who are home for Passover, should be commended
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The holiday of Shavuot marks the Jewish People's receiving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai 3,323 years ago, as the rabbis calculated that this was the day. It also marks the day after the 49-day Sefirat HaOmer counting period, which begins on the Passover...
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How do we internalize the midrashic tradition that all Jews stood at Sinai as the Jewish Bible was revealed to Israel? Just as we Jews seek the spiritual connection to see ourselves as having escaped Egyptian slavery on Passover, we also attempt to...
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Passover (Hebrew, Yiddish: פֶּסַח, Pesach, Tiberian: pɛsaħ, Israeli: Pesah, Pesakh, Yiddish: Peysekh) is a Jewish and Samaritan holy day and festival commemorating the Exodus from Egypt and the liberation of the Israelites from slavery. It is also known as Festival of the Unleavened Bread (חַג הַמַּצּוֹת, ħaɣ ham:asʕ:oθ, "Chag/Khag Hamatzot/s"). Full Article
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Alan Adler, owner at the Streit’s Matzo factory on the lower east side of New York, poses for a photograph on May 9, 2012. Aron Streit, Inc. is a kosher food company based in New York City, founded in 1916 by Aron Streit, a Jewish immigrant from Austria. The factory usually bakes about...
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Members of the Samaritan sect hold large sheep skewers as they are put into an oven during a traditional Passover sacrifice ceremony on Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank city of Nablus May 4, 2012. The Samaritans, who trace their roots to the biblical Kingdom of Israel in what is now...
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A boy, who is a member of the Samaritan sect, poses for a photo with a sheep bloodstain on his forehead during a traditional Passover sacrifice ceremony on Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank city of Nablus May 4, 2012. The Samaritans, who trace their roots to the biblical kingdom of...
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A member of the Samaritan sect holds a machete after slaughtering a sheep with it during a traditional Passover sacrifice ceremony on Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank city of Nablus May 4, 2012. The Samaritans, who trace their roots to the biblical kingdom of Israel in what is now the...
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A spiritual leader of the Samaritan sect takes part in the traditional Passover sacrifice ceremony on Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank city of Nablus May 4, 2012. The Samaritans, who trace their roots to the biblical kingdom of Israel in what is now the northern occupied West Bank,...
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Mud hand prints of members of the ancient Samaritan community cover a wall during the Samaritan Passover sacrifices ritual in Mount Grizim, overlooking the West Bank town of Nablus, Friday, May 4, 2012. Samaritans descended from the ancient Israelite tribes of Menashe and Efraim but...
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Members of the ancient Samaritan community cook skewered Passover sacrifices during the ritual of Sacrifice, in Mount Grizin, overlooking the West Bank town of Nablus, Friday, May 4, 2012. Samaritans descended from the ancient Israelite tribes of Menashe and Efraim but broke away from...
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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man speaks to a priest from the ancient Samaritan community as an armed Jewish settler looks at his phone during the Passover sacrifices ceremony, in Mount Grizim, overlooking the West Bank town of Nablus Friday, May 4, 2012. Samaritans descended from the...
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews harvest wheat using hand sickles in a field several kilometers away from the Mevo Horon settlement in the Israeli occupied West Bank, on May 22, 2012. The wheat will be stored for almost a year before being used to grind flour in order to make the Matzah Shemurah...
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews carry sacks full with wheat after harvesting it using hand sickles in a field some three kilometers from the Mevo Horon settlement in the Israeli occupied West Bank, on May 22, 2012. The wheat will be stored for almost a year before being used to grind flour in order...
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews harvest wheat with hand sickles in a field near the Mevo Horon settlement in the Isreali occupied West Bank, on May 22, 2012. The wheat will be stored for almost a year before being used to grind flour in order to make the Matzah Shemurah (unleavened bread) for the...
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Samaritans hold prayers at dawn on top of Mount Gerizim near the northern West Bank city of Nablus to mark the end of the Passover holiday on May 11, 2012. The Israeli Samaritan community which numbers about 720 people practice a religion that is based on four principles of faith, one...
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Western Wall employees remove messages and prayers, written on pieces of paper by thousands of people addressed to God, from the cracks of the Jewish holiest site in Jerusalem's Old City on March 28, 2012, in preparation for the up coming Jewish Passover holiday. Passover begins the...
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A Western Wall employee removes messages and prayers written on paper by thousands of peoples addressed to God, from the cracks of the Jewish holiest site in Jerusalem's Old City on March 28, 2012, in preparation for the up coming Jewish Passover holiday.
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Sunbathers kiss as they sit on the shore of the Dead Sea April 11, 2012, during the Jewish holiday of Passover.
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Sunbathers rinse themselves with fresh water near the shore of the Dead Sea April 11, 2012, during the Jewish holiday of Passover.
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