Moses is the most important Jewish prophet. The Jewish holy book is known as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible. The word Tanakh comes from the first letters of the three different parts of the 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 on ...

The most celebrated of Jewish holidays, Passover, represents liberation and is symbolic of self-determination. Known as "Pesach" in Hebrew, Passover commemorates pivotal events in the Book of Exodus.

The destructive decrees against Torah Judaism threatened to uproot our holy way of traditional Jewish life ... as described in detail in the “Book of the Chashmonaim” (alternatively known ...

A Haggadah, meaning “telling,” is a fundamental Jewish text used to follow the order of the ritual Passover Seder meal, where ...