Pomegranate seeds also represent the 613 Mitzvot, or commandments, that are cited in the Torah, the Jewish holy book. This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: When is Rosh Hashanah?

Shavuot (pronounced Shah-voo-OTE), Hebrew for “weeks," has been observed since biblical times. It marks the passing of seven ...

Pomegranate seeds also represent the 613 mitzvot, or commandments, that are cited in the Torah, the Jewish holy book.

Pomegranate seeds also represent the 613 mitzvot, or commandments, that are cited in the Torah, the Jewish holy book. Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism, is when Jews reflect ...

How to translate holy, ancient and immutable words ... textual garden is to live as people of the book, the enduring and core foundation of Judaism. Sidra Kranz Moshinsky is an educator and ...

Traditionally, women have been locked out of reading the Jewish holy book in Orthodox Holy Day celebrations. But a small movement of female Torah readers is gaining ground both in the United States ...

Pomegranate seeds also represent the 613 Mitzvot, or commandments, that are cited in the Torah, the Jewish holy book.