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Minor Modern Holy Days And Celebrations
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Q.1
“Yom Hashoah” is the day each year Jews remember the Holocaust during the Second World War. It falls on the date of the ....
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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liberation of Auschwitz, the largest extermination camp established by the Germans 37 miles west of Krakow (Cracow) in Poland where 1.1 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis
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establishment of the State of Israel in 1948
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the election of David Ben Gurion as Prime Minister of Israel in 1959
Q.2
The main denominations or branches of Judaism - Orthodox, Progressive/Liberal/Reform and Conservative celebrate Jewish festivals ....
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in their own way
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completely differently
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ignoring just some festivals completely
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very much in the same way
Q.3
“Tu bi-Shevat” (the New Year for Trees) actually celebrates a new ....
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year for planting crops in Israel
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year for planting trees in Israel
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Spring after the Equinox
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year looking forward to increased sustainability on the land
Q.4
Hannukah, or the “Festival of Lights” that sometimes coincides with Christmas, is an 8-day minor Jewish holiday that commemorates the ....
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Jewish equivalent of Christmas
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Re-dedication of the 2nd Holy Temple in Jerusalem
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Passover
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Feast of Tabernacles
Q.5
“Purim”, the festival of “lots” is celebrated around March and before Passover. It is very much ....
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celebrated mainly at home
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the only Jewish festival not to include the services of a rabbi
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the only Jewish festival not celebrated in Israel
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an “eat, drink and be merry” festival
Q.6
Rosh Chodesh, the first day of each Jewish month, is considered a minor festival. There is a custom that ...
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Jewish women do not work on the day
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Jewish men do not work on the day
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children attend synagogue in the morning for a celebration breakfast
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if it falls on the Sabbath day it is ignored
Q.7
“Shavuot” is one of the Jewish harvest festivals and is also known as the festival of 'Weeks'. It marks the ....
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start of the wheat harvest and the end of the barley harvest
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start of the crop sowing season
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moving clocks forward an hour at springtime to help harvesting
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the harvesting of the first fruit crops of the year
Q.8
“Tisha B'Av” a single day of national mourning and fasting marking the destruction of the Temples in ancient times occurs in late July or August. It is unusual because it’s ....
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not widely observed outside the religious community
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not widely observed inside the religious community
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a festival for old men
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a festival celebrated only by women
Q.9
Yom Haatzmaut or Independence Day celebrates ....
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American Independence Day
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Israel Independence Day
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the end of the Second World War and the freeing of the remaining Jewish prisoners held by the Nazis
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the reunification of Jerusalem during the Six Day War
Q.10
“Sukkot” known as the Feast of Tabernacles, or the Feast of Booths is a time when the ritual is to ....
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take four plant types, typically a citron fruit, a palm branch, a myrtle branch, and a willow branch, and to celebrate with them
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refrain from drinking hot drinks for the week of the festival
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joyously celebrate how far the Jewish people have come (from a timeline point of view) since slavery in Egypt in biblical times
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dress very casually for synagogue services during the week of the festival
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