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Learn everything you need to know about Judaism, including information about the religion, Jewish history, scholars, and holidays.

Jewish Holidays

  • The Jewish Calendar
  • Jewish Holiday Dates
  • Hanukkah
  • Passover
  • Purim
  • Rosh Hashanah
  • Shavuot
  • Shemini Atzeret
  • Simchat Torah
  • Sukkoth (Feast of Tabernacles)
  • Tu Bishevat
  • Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
  • Yom Kippur

Quizzes & Hangman

  • Passover Quiz
  • Jewish Holidays Quiz
  • Hanukkah Hangman New!

Glossary of Jewish Terms

  • Afikomen
  • Aliyah
  • Brith (Bris)
  • Bar Mitzvah
  • Bat Mitzvah
  • B’nai B’rith
  • Cantor
  • Challah
  • Haggadah
  • Halakah
  • Hasidism
  • Haskalah
  • Huppah
  • Gefilte fish
  • Glatt Kosher
  • Kabbalah
  • Kaddish
  • Kashruth
  • Kosher Laws
  • Kosher Laws for Passover
  • Kosher-style
  • Ketubah
  • Midrash
  • Minyan
  • Mishna
  • Mitzvah
  • Phylacteries (Tefellin)
  • Rabbi
  • Seder
  • Shalom
  • Shofar
  • Synagogue
  • Tallit
  • Yahweh
  • Yarmulke
  • Yizkor

People and Religion

  • Jews
  • Judaism (concise)
  • Judaism (in-depth)
  • Sephardim
  • Ashkenazim
  • Branches of Judaism
  • Israel’s Lost Tribes
  • Chinese Jews
  • Diaspora

Languages

  • Hebrew
  • Yiddish
  • Yiddish Glossary
  • Ladino

Jewish Statehood

  • Israel: Country Profile
  • Israel: Encyclopedia
  • Map of Israel
  • Israel’s 60th Anniversary
  • Zionism
  • Balfour Declaration

Peace Process

  • Middle East 2009
  • Middle East 2008
  • Middle East 2007
  • Middle East 2006
  • Middle East 2005
  • Middle East 2004
  • Middle East 2003
  • Middle East 2002
  • Arab-Israeli Wars
  • Middle East 2001
  • Middle East 2000
  • Middle East 1999
  • Middle East 1998
  • Middle East
  • Map of the Middle East

Pogroms, the Holocaust, and Other Persecutions

  • The Spanish Inquisition
  • Pogrom
  • Encyclopedia: Holocaust
  • Timeline: Holocaust

Notable Jewish Scholars

  • Judah Abarbanel
  • Baal-Shem-Tov
  • Akiba ben Joseph
  • Elijah ben Solomon
  • Isaac ben Solomon Luria
  • Abraham Geiger
  • Judah ha-Nasi
  • Theodor Herzl
  • Hillel
  • Vladimir Jabotinsky
  • Moses Mendelssohn
  • Rashi
  • Solomon Schechter
  • Shammai
  • Ezer Weizman
  • Maimonides (Rambam)

Biblical and Historical Documents

  • Torah
  • Pentateuch
  • Old Testament
  • Talmud
  • Kabbalah
  • Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Judaism 101
  • Ask the Rabbi
  • The American Jewish Committee
  • National Yiddish Book Center

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Branches of Judaism

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  • Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses
  • Current Events This Week: January 2023
  • African Americans by the Numbers
  • Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
  • The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales