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For many Jews, the three-sided sukkah and the traditions they celebrate during the Festival of Booths symbolize their link with their ancestors' pursuit for a homeland.

Thanksgiving was first celebrated by the Pilgrim settlers and it is likely that they consciously drew on a model well known to them from the Bible.

The Torah and Haftorah passages, the Yizkor prayers and the avoidance of leather footwear on Yom Kippur all have relevance on this Shabbat of Shabbats

U.S. holidays and observances in October 2009 include Columbus Day, Halloween, and some usual celebrations like National Chocolate Cupcake Day.

Since ancient times, people around the world have offered thanks in festivals celebrating a bountiful harvest.

The annual remembrance of Kristallnacht, on November 9 and 10 is the world's memorial to the start of the Jewish Holocaust, when fires raged across Germany and Austria.

Thanksgiving celebrations date back to ancient Greek and Roman times when they were called "harvest festivals." American tradition is deeply rooted in this ancestry.

The Cornucopia is best known as a Thanksgiving centerpiece. Straw, ceramic and edible ones are filled with fruits, nuts and vegetables or treats made in their shapes.

These free resources and strategies are for ESL teachers interested in teaching their students more about the American and Canadian Thanksgiving holidays.

Passover is a very family-oriented holiday. Since traveling home is not always an option for a college student, here are a few ways to celebrate while away at college.

Tests and games often conflict with Jewish holidays. Ideally. parents can give dates to teachers, coaches in the spring, before they complete fall schedules.

According to Rabbi Heschel, the Sabbath should focus on a still and quiet spirit.

North Americans acknowledge the Thanksgiving celebration by sharing a festive meal with family and giving thanks, but is that really a Jewish tradition?

The festival of Shavuot (Shavu'ot or Shavuos), on 22-24 May 2007, commemorates the giving of the Law of Moses on Mount Sinai.

Like so many holidays and religious observances, food and what it symbolizes, plays an intimate part of the Jewish Passover (or Pesach) Seder.

A traditional Christmas differs from a traditional Jewish Chanukah. Children benefit with gifts from both holidays but they are worlds apart in reason and methodology.

Jewish mourning customs honour the departed and take care of mourners. The sequence of shiva, shloshim, Kaddish and yahrzeit facilitate a transition back to normality.