Shabbat (also known as “Shabbos” or the “Sabbath“) is the centerpiece of Jewish life, and has been so since the infancy of our nation. According to the Talmud, Shabbat is equal to all the other commandments. Shabbat is so central to Jewish lifeShabbat is the centerpiece of Jewish life that the term shomer Shabbat (Shabbat observer) is synonymous with “religious […]

By Leibel Gniwisch The haze was thicker than usual—a mixture of cigarette and furnace smoke—but Rabbi Shmuel could see the man. It was Belarus in the 19th century and Jewish-run inns dotted the rural areas like poppy seeds on a bagel. Rabbi Shmuel didn’t frequent inns; he preferred the comfort of his straw bed at home. But […]

Should you prepare enough kippah/kippahs/kippot for all wedding ceremony guests, including non-jewish? Nowadays, people are getting more and more international, and get loved and married to each other regardless of their religions, especially in the USA, a multination multi element combined country. People from all kinds of religions live together, though they have different believes, […]

What is Passover Festival? Passover, also called Pesach (/ˈpɛsɑːx, ˈpeɪsɑːx/;from Hebrew פֶּסַח‬ Pesah, Pesakh), is a major, biblically derived Jewish holiday. Jews celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation by God from slavery in ancient Egypt and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of Moses. It commemorates the story of the Exodus […]

There are a lot of calling terms for the jewish small round cloth cap, yarmulke, kippah, kippot, skullcap, kapl, etc. How does the term yarmulke define formed? On Quora ask and answer, there is a writer Steven Klein replied here: One’s age and background probably have a lot to do with this. I grew up in LA […]

– – A Kippah usually have the following parts：components you want to know with picture 1, Button. Though nowadays it is very rare to use this button version kippot, but still there is needs. 2, Body. Our kippah is mainly in 4 panels, which can be easily sewn and form a good shape to the […]