Weekly Parsha

Yom HaShoah – Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day – is observed as Israel’s day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its accessories, and for the Jewish resistance in that period. In Israel, it is...Read more...

On Jewish holidays, within each 24-hour (night-day) holiday unit, we are permitted to make preparations for all of that unit, but we are forbidden to make any preparations for the following unit, which begins after nightfall. (For example, on a Wednesday night holiday, one may cook for Wednesday night and...Read more...