News and Thoughts from Judaism Online
Israel's observance of Yom Hashoah veHaGevurah (that is, Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day) begins this evening, April 23.
Heroism, you ask? Yes, absolutely.
Israel's Knesset chose this date, in the week after the Passover holiday, to commemorate the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Th...
Over the last I-don't-know-quite-how-many-years, "coaching" has sprung up in a plethora of surprising places. I suppose there may have always been business coaches, maybe career coaches, and birthing coaches. To these have been added all kinds of coaches, including "life coaches" - though the ones I...
Here in Israel, the Passover holiday ended this evening. As the Torah says, it is a 7-day holiday.
But outside of Israel, in the Diaspora, Passover lasts for 8 days, following an ancient practice.
In antiquity, the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem would determine the start of a new month based on testimony...
Passover, the Festival of Freedom
The Passover holiday, which begins this year on Saturday night, April 12, is the holiday of freedom. It begins with the ancient Hebrew slaves being redeemed from Egyptian servitude.
That redemption was, as the Hebrew Bible says, done directly by God: plagues, mir...
Can you learn Judaism online?
The short answer: yes.
The longer answer: yes, and....
Yes, you can learn Judaism online.
Online learning has been around for a good while now, both in formal learning programs, like here at Judaism Online, and in those quick, bite-sized YouTubes that show you how t...
I know of three kinds of people who need to learn about Judaism.
Jews who didn't learn Judaism as kids
It may surprise you, but I was in this group. My Hebrew school experience was pretty typical, and disappointing. For the first several years, classes were really a waste of time. Someone's dad, w...
One of my major goals for Judaism Online is to bring Jewish learning to the most people possible.
OK, so the Intro to Judaism course, and all my Jewish courses, are online here, and that helps.
But I wanted to go further. So instead of a one-time course fee, I arranged to make the course fee sprea...
