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Yom haShoah Ve’Hagvura or Yom HaShoah (יום השואה yom ha-sho’āh, יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה-Yom ha-zikaron la-Shoah v’la-Gvura), “Holocaust Martyrs’ Remembrance Day” or, literally, “Remembrance day for The Holocaust and Heroism”, takes place on the 27th day of the month Nisan, in the Hebrew calendar, which falls in the early spring. It is held every year in remembrance of the 6,000,000+ Jews who perished in the Holocaust. It is a national memorial day in Israel.
Here in Israel, one can notice that most of Israel national television channels are out, except those that keep the broadcastings according to our memorial day.
Chol HaMoed, is a Hebrew phrase which means “weekdays [of] the festival”, refers to the intermediate days of Passover and Sukkot. During Chol HaMoed the usual restrictions that apply to the Biblical Jewish holidays are relaxed, but not entirely eliminated.[1] Hallel and Mussaf prayers must be said on these days, as on Yom Tov, although on Chol Hamoed of Passover, an abridged form of Hallel is recited. The tachanun prayer is also omitted.
Passover is a seven-day festival (eight in the Diaspora), of which days second though sixth – third though sixth in the Diaspora – are Chol HaMoed. Sukkot is a seven-day festival, of which days second though seventh (third through seventh in the Diaspora) are Chol HaMoed.
On Chol HaMoed, tefillin are not worn during the prayers by all except certain groups of Ashkenazi Jews and Yemenite Jews. Even those who wear tefillin do so without reciting the blessings, and remove the tefillin before Hallel or Mussaf.
On these days there are four aliyot at the Torah reading in synagogu
Well, its finally here; Pesach (or Passover…) is here, tonight, we shall all sit at the table with our family, read the Haggada, eat some Matza with Charoset, and sing the wonderful passover songs…
Have a Great Passover holiday
(CBS/AP) SPRING VALLEY, N.Y.
A rabbi has been given extra time to make a school bus retrofitted as an oven less hazardous — so he can finish baking matzos for his congregation in time for next week’s Passover holiday.
The old, red and white bus had been converted into a supersized oven for Passover matzos — complete with a smokestack, exhaust fans and working fire. While a building inspector last week called the bakery bus “very creative,” he instructed Rabbi Aaron Winternitz to move it away from his house and disconnect the gas lines before he could again use it.
But on Thursday, deputy building inspector Manny Carmona — who had also demanded that the rabbi produce documents to show that a licensed engineer had overseen the project — said the village of Spring Valley was giving the rabbi a temporary reprieve so he could finish his matzos for Passover, which begins at sundown Monday.
Winternitz had been making the unleavened bread inside the school bus for his 50-member Congregation Mivtzar Hatorah for the past three Passovers. The bus was behind his house and was discovered by authorities after a neighbor complained of smoke last week.
Matzo is eaten during Passover week to illustrate how the Jews had no time to let their bread rise as they fled slavery in Egypt.
