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	Jewish Festivals \| www.somethingjewish.co.uk
		The Jewish calendar is full of festivals and special days, either commemorating a major event in Jewish history or celebrating a certain time of year (such as Jewish New Year).
		Festival days are known as Yom Tovim and many of these days are marked by Jews refraining from working - however, unlike the Sabbath cooking (for the day ahead only) and carrying items outside of the home are both permitted.
		During the eight-day festival, Jews are supposed to live in a similar booth known as a Succah (dwelling) - the walls are made of wood and the ceiling of greenery to leave the stars visible.
	www.somethingjewish.co.uk /jewish_festivals/index.htm (1425 words)

	Judaism 101: Jewish Holidays
		For those who just want information on a need-to-know basis, there is also A Gentile's Guide to the Jewish Holidays, which will give you a basic awareness of the holidays most commonly observed by American Jews.
		Work is not permitted on Rosh Hashanah, on Yom Kippur, on the first and second days of Sukkot, on Shemini Atzeret, on Simchat Torah, on Shavu'ot, and the first, second, seventh and eighth days of Passover.
		The Jewish calendar is lunar, with each month beginning on the new moon.
	www.jewfaq.org /holiday0.htm (748 words)

	Indian Festivals,Festivals in India,Fairs and Festivals of India,Indian Festival Tours,Festivals of India,Hindu ...
		An integral part of Indian culture, Indian festivals are innumerable in number and are equally varied in origin marking the national, regional, local, religious, seasonal and social fervour.
		The Indian calendar is one long procession of festivals dedicated to various deities, saints, prophets and also seasons, with every day of the year being observed as a festival, in some part of the country.
		Many of these festivals are common to most parts of India, though called by different names and celebrated differently, in the various parts of the country.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /festivals (170 words)

	Jewish Holidays and Festivals
		The 15th of Av is the most mysterious day of the Jewish calendar: our Sages proclaim it one of the two greatest festivals of the year (the other being Yom Kippur!), yet they ordained no special observances or celebrations for it.
		Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, celebrates the creation of the world and is a time for reflection on the year past.
		Tu B'Shevat, the 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar is the day that marks the beginning of a "New Year for Trees." This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle.
	www.chabad.org /holidays (615 words)

	Jewish holiday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The holiest of the religious Jewish holidays are enumerated in the Torah, in Leviticus and Deuteronomy.
		After Hillel II codified the Jewish calendar into a precise mathematical system, it was decided by the Talmudic sages that due to the prevalence and age of the two-day tradition it was to continue regardless.
		The eight-day festival is marked by the kindling of lights—one on the first night, two on the second, and so on—using a special candle holder called a hanukiah or a Hanukkah menorah.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_holiday (3475 words)

	Festivals
		This is the spring festival that celebrates the wheat harvest.It usually occurs somewhere between February and March.
		It is a nine day festival to worship the mother goddess and her victory over the buffalo demon.
		Jewish scriptures and prayers contain reference to the many occasions on which their enemies destroyed theTemple; each time the Jews rebuilt it.
	www.ict.mic.ul.ie /websites/2002/Patricia_Dooley/Festivals.htm (1174 words)

	JPSI - Handbook of Religios Beliefs and Practices
		Any Jewish inmate, whether or not participating in a regular Jewish religious and/or Passover diet program, must be permitted to fast on any religiously prescrived fast day, provided that such fasting would not be detrimental to his or her medical condition.
		All Jewish inmates must be permitted the opportunity to observe the Sabbath, holy days, and festivals to their individual degree of observance, including possession of materials necessary for proper observance of these events.
		Jewish inmate must be permitted to posses and use in the prescribed manners any other religious materials (e.g., prayer shawl, phylacteries, tzitzes, Sabbath/holy day/festival materials such as candles, candle holders, spices, a ram's horn, etc.) to their individual degree of observance.
	www.jewishprisonerservices.org /practices.htm (5423 words)

	Jewish Religious Festivals, Fast days, and Memorial Days
		In the Jewish calendar, the days are reckoned from sunset to sunset, the months are calculated according to the moon, and the years according to the sun.
		The Jewish year is calculated by adding 3760 to the civil year, and conversely, the civil year is obtained by subtracting 3760 from the Jewish year, i.e.
		The festival which was established to commemorate the victory of the Maccabees in freeing the Second Temple from the Hellenistic Syrians, and rededicating it to the worship of God.
	www1.uni-hamburg.de /rz3a035/jew_fest.html (8793 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Culture: The Multiplex as Temple
		Jewish film festivals are wildly popular--and for some moviegoers, are a major expression of their Judaism.
		Jewish film festivals, many only a few years old, are held not only in such obvious places as New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco--at 23 years, the oldest and still the biggest--but also in Omaha, Fresno, and northeast Pennsylvania.
		Festivals catering to a more conservative audience, those in small towns or with close ties to synagogues or local Jewish community centers, stick to less controversial fare.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /culture/Film/Film_TO/FilmFestivals.htm (1350 words)

	Film festivals
		Jewish "film festivals are one signal of a Jewish renaissance" culturally, says Richard Siegel, the foundation's executive director.
		Jewish film festivals often show films "that didn't make it commercially: Either they're really lousy films or they're inaccurate, historically," she says.
		The most effective use of Jewish films as a hook for Jewish involvement is to show them in venues "that have an ongoing mission which is not just entertainment but life cycle, whether a synagogue, or a Jewish community center, or a university," she says.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/030103/film.shtml (1323 words)

	Jewish Festivals Facts - Jewish Festivals News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jewish festivals, originating in antiquity, are observed in israel intensively and in many ways.
		The jewish festivals a guide to their history and observance written by hayyim schauss religion holidays jewish schocken trade paperback september 1996 15.00 0 8052 0937 9 about this.
		The religious action was part of a larger campaign to invoke Jewish traditions in defense of Headwaters Forest, the largest tract of unprotected ancient redwoods in the world, acquired by Maxxam in a hostile takeover of Pacific Lumber Company in 1986.
	www.jewish-traditions.info /jewish-festivals.html (1186 words)

	RLST 124J: Festivals and Rituals
		The Jewish Calendar ostensibly counts years from the creation of the world (according to the timeline provided by the Torah), although it is acknowledged that the six "days" of creation could have lasted anywhere from thousands to billions of years.
		The Jewish year begins on Rosh Hashanah, ostensibly the month in which the world was created (technically, according to the Torah, this actually occurred in the "seventh month" of the Jewish calendar; the "first month" is in the spring, but the "New Year" is in the fall).
		These festivals provide a regular rhythm to the Jewish year: when Jews lived in relative social isolation (either in their own land, or restricted and disenfranchised in the premodern Diaspora), the weekly, monthly, and annual rhythms of festival observance would structure time for a whole community.
	faculty.ucr.edu /~andrew/judaism/festivals.htm (832 words)

	Jewish Calendar - Hebrew Calendar
		Before the establishment of a Jewish calendar, the identification and designation of Rosh Hodesh ("new moon" in Hebrew) for a given month was critical in fixing the dates for Jewish festivals for that month.
		The Jewish high court in Judea, known as the Sanhedrin, based in Jerusalem during Temple times, retained its centralized and exclusive authority for fixing the date of Rosh Hodesh as well as for adding an extra month when it deemed necessary, based on the condition of crops at the end of the 12th month.
		This included the Jewish communities which were located west of Israel in Egypt and the Jewish communities which were located northeast of Israel and which extended all the way to Babylon, then the capital city of Babylonia (now in present-day Iraq) as well as other major Jewish communities in Babylonia.
	www.angelfire.com /pa2/passover/jewish-calendar-hebrew.html (6605 words)

	Judaism and Vegetarianism: Passover and Vegetarianism
		Many Jewish vegetarians see connections between the oppression that their ancestors suffered and the current plight of the billions of people who presently lack sufficient food and other essential resources.
		Contrary to Jewish teachings of "tsa'ar ba'alei chayim" (the Torah mandate not to cause unnecessary "pain to a living creature"), animals are raised for food today under cruel conditions in crowded confined spaces, where they are denied fresh air, sunlight, a chance to exercise, and the fulfillment of their natural instincts.
		In this connection, it is significant to consider that according to the Jewish tradition, Moses, Judaism's greatest leader, teacher, and prophet, was chosen to lead the Israelites out of Egypt because as a shepherd he showed great compassion to a lamb (Exodus Rabbah 2:2).
	www.jewishveg.com /passover.html (743 words)

	Jewish Holidays - ReligionFacts
		You shall rejoice in your festivals and shall be altogether joyful.
		The most important Jewish holy days are the Sabbath, the three pilgrimage festivals (Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot) and the two High Holy Days (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur).
		Sukkoth is known by several names: the "Festival of the Ingathering" (Khag ha-Asif), the "Festival of Booths" (Khag ha-Sukkot); "The Festival" (Khag), and the "Season of Rejoicing" (Zeman Simkhateinu).
	www.religionfacts.com /judaism/holidays.htm (644 words)

	BBC - Schools - Jewish Festivals
		The most holy Jewish book is the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) which was revealed by God to Moses on Mount Sinai over 3,000 years ago.
		The emblem of the Jewish people is the Magen David (Shield of David), also known as the Star of David.
		Others believe that you are Jewish if either your mother or father is Jewish, or you convert according to the Progressive tradition.
	www.bbc.co.uk /schools/religion/judaism (504 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - Festivals of Jewish culture in the Czech Republic
		Every year at the film festival, the Crystal Menorah prize is awarded for drama and documentary films and their contribution to Jewish culture.
		Trebíc a town forever linked with Jewish culture and proud of its UNESCO listed sites, invites visitors to the annual amajim Festival This is the 3rd time this festival of Jewish culture will be held in the town and will take place this year from July 31 until August 5.
		The Jewish cemetery will be open to the public during the festival and the synagogue will host an exhibition on the unique, picturesque Jewish quarter in Boskovice.
	new.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1849 (706 words)

	The Jewish Holidays - An Overview
		In some of the festivals, such as Passover, the kiddush cup is drunk several times during the meal.
		Since God is a covenant God, these festivals are also part of what can be called "covenant language." They are there as a reminder of God's covenant with Abraham, and through him with the nation of Israel, and ultimately with us.
		Jewish festivals are celebrated the same way every year, to the point that a written script is kept and used for celebrating some of the festivals.
	www.maranathalife.com /teach-ot/fiestas2.htm (662 words)

	Important Jewish Festivals Directory \| Important Jewish Festivals Secrets (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Festivals of the jewish year, by theodor h.
		Life home jewish life passover homepage passover passover is one of the most important jewish festivals of the year, and its high point is the seder.
		The two most important festivals in the jewish calendar are rosh hashanah the jewish new year, and yom.
	www.chanukah-info.com /important-jewish-festivals.html (857 words)

	Atlanta Jewish Times -- Cover Story
		According to Marx, the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival was lucky because it evolved from a successful film series collaboration between the AJC and The Temple and thus had a ready-made audience.
		Jewish “film festivals are one signal of a Jewish renaissance” culturally, says Richard Siegel, executive director of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.
		An audience survey at the 2001 San Francisco festival found that nearly 60 percent of the 34,000 patrons said they were returning for the third straight year, 5 percent said they had been returning each year for a decade and some 30 percent were newcomers.
	www.atljewishtimes.com /archives/2003/012403cs.htm (2216 words)

	Jewish Festivals
		The calendar of religious festivals is a major unifying focus for identity.
		Unleavened bread [matzah] is eaten as a reminder of the "bread of affliction" which slaves ate in Egypt.
		Hence this festival is also known as the Feast of Unleavened Bread".
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /history/dfg/jesu/jewfest.htm (347 words)

	Greater Chicago Jewish Folk Arts Festival - National Jewish Festivals
		The National Jewish Festivals (NJF) Committee is organized to share ideas and resources for Jewish music and art festivals around the country.
		This festival is organized by the Hillel Foundation at the University of Cincinnati for the entire local community.
		The Riverdale New York Jewish Festival is a new project of the Riverdale YM/YWHA.
	www.jewishfestival.com /national_festivals.asp (800 words)

	Jewish Festivals: 9 Feb 2006: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		Jewish Festivals: 9 Feb 2006: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		It is left to individual staff members to decide how to mark religious festivals.
		In line with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Diversity Policy, all line managers are encouraged to be flexible when considering leave requests for staff wishing to take time off to mark religious festivals.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /wrans/?id=2006-02-09a.46758.h (125 words)

	Jewish Festivals: 6 Feb 2006: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		Jewish Festivals: 6 Feb 2006: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		Staff are made aware of Hanukkah, Yom Kippur and other important Jewish festivals by means of the Department's Calendar of Religious and Cultural Festivals.
		Home Office staff have also attended talks, by a representative from the Chief Rabbi's office, to understand how Jewish people apply the principles of their faith to the modern world.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /wrans/?id=2006-02-06b.46760.h (154 words)

	The Jewish Festivals - By: Hayyim Schauss - Christianbook.com
		THE JEWISH FESTIVALS provides a rich and charming account of the origins, development, and symbolism of the Jewish holidays, and of the diverse rituals, prayers, ceremonial objects, and special foods that have been used throughout history and around the world to celebrate them.
		Drawing upon a wealth of knowledge of Jewish folkways and customs, Hayyim Schauss shows how these holidays evolved in meaning and importance, depending on the contemporary needs of those who observed them.
		Using the medium of historical fiction, The Shadow of God covers six centuries of Jewish history, from the Babylonian exile to the...
	www.christianbook.com /Christian/Books/product?event=AFF&p=1009426&item_no=0413X (510 words)

	www.SomethingJewish.co.uk \| The number one destination for all things Jewish in the UK and more (Site not responding. Last check: )
		More than 1000 mourners attended the funeral of a Jewish soldier from South Florida who was killed in Iraq.
		Daniel Agami, 25, known as "GI Jew," was killed in Baghdad on June 21 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.
		Oi Va Voi are back with not just a self-titled new album but also a special one-off gig in London and SomethingJewish has two pairs of tickets to the gig on Monday 9 July at The Scala in Kings Cross to giveaway.
	www.somethingjewish.co.uk (213 words)

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