Search results for "Jewish services" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • , literally "head of the year") is a Jewish holiday, commonly ... of rest, and activities prohibited on the Jewish Sabbath are also prohibited ...
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  • According to Jewish law, when Jewish children reach the age of maturity ... Before this age, the responsibility of the child to follow Jewish ...
    10 KB (1,502 words) - 07:59, 20 September 2023
  • - September 14, 1828, Berlin) was a German-Jewish financier and philanthropist ... A supporter of the Jewish Enlightenment, Jacobson worked to create ...
    13 KB (1,953 words) - 06:05, 11 March 2024
  • Cincinnati, Ohio to a comfortable, German-Jewish middle-class family. She ... Today, Wald’s Henry Street Settlement continues to provide services ...
    8 KB (1,096 words) - 01:43, 26 October 2022
  • Shavuot (or Shavuos; "Weeks") is a Jewish holiday that occurs ... festivals known as the shalosh regalim in Jewish tradition. ...
    15 KB (2,310 words) - 13:22, 27 January 2023
  • It is characterized by a liberal attitude toward the Jewish law and ... in seeking to update and liberalize the Jewish tradition, divisions soon ...
    19 KB (2,867 words) - 03:01, 8 December 2022
  • In Jewish tradition, a cantor or hazzan is a musician trained in the ... rabbis in some congregations. Traditional Jewish law restricts the cantor ...
    15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
  • Court Jew is a term for Jewish leaders who rose to positions of influence ... Some court Jews were also prominent people in the local Jewish community ...
    12 KB (1,873 words) - 20:25, 28 May 2020
  • that is used as a musical instrument for Jewish religious purposes. It is ... , it has played a more restricted role in Jewish religious life. ...
    13 KB (2,151 words) - 14:23, 27 January 2023
  • skullcap traditionally worn by Orthodox Jewish men, although some men and ... According to the Talmud, a Jewish man is required to cover his head ...
    15 KB (2,303 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
  • is the holiest day of the year in the Jewish calendar. It falls on the ... Rosh Hashanah, are the only times in Jewish services when Jews engage in ...
    20 KB (3,188 words) - 16:40, 4 June 2023
  • was supposedly hatched by a number of by Jewish doctors conspiring to poison ... Stalin's suspicions of any form of Jewish nationalism were expressed ...
    12 KB (1,709 words) - 16:33, 29 January 2024
  • It involved the wrongful conviction of Jewish military officer Alfred Dreyfus ... Following Dreyfus' conviction, the idea of an international Jewish ...
    10 KB (1,479 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
  • Ruth is one of the shortest books in both Jewish and Christian scripture ... to a foreigner as long as she respects Jewish tradition. Acceptance of ...
    10 KB (1,594 words) - 00:40, 19 November 2023
  • cultures, Gregorian chant, Vedic chant, Jewish liturgical music (chazzanut ... parts in sacred ceremonies and religious services. Such music created the ...
    5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
  • in his youth, he was careful to observe Jewish customs as king, and was ... sees the death as an act of fate. Other Jewish traditions hold the Romans ...
    11 KB (1,756 words) - 06:49, 16 June 2023
  • During the Middle Ages, when courtships were frowned upon and many ... In larger Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, the reputation of ...
    21 KB (3,273 words) - 16:48, 7 November 2022
  • education, fellowship, and various social services to the impoverished population ... London’s poorest population with services including tutorial classes ...
    15 KB (2,182 words) - 10:06, 26 January 2023
  • as mixed-gender seating during synagogue services, he faced trouble in his ... national conferences designed to unite the Jewish synagogues of America. He ...
    16 KB (2,521 words) - 18:59, 7 March 2024
  • Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from ... According to Jewish thought, God established a covenant with the Jewish ...
    32 KB (4,804 words) - 20:55, 4 October 2022

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