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This portion of the FAQ contains answers to the following questions:
Section 5:
Jewish Holidays
1. [5]What are the different holidays?
2. [6]What are the dates of the upcoming Jewish holidays?
3. [7]How can I get a Jewish calendar
4. [8]Why do some people take off one day, and others two?
5. [9]Why does the Jewish day start at sundown?
6. [10]What are the origins of the Chanukah Dreidel?
7. [11]Is it appropriate for Christians to "celebrate" Pesach using
the form of a seder meal?
8. [12]What are the months of the Jewish Year?
9. [13]How does Judaism measure the day?
10. [14]Are the Four Questions asked on Pesach in the Torah?
11. [15]What are the different days of the Jewish week?
12. [16]How are Yahrzeits observed in Leap Years?
13. [17]What happened to the observance on 14 Nisan as Passover?
14. [18]For Mother's Day, how should one bless their mothers?
Section 6:
Jewish Dietary Law and Kashrut
1. [5]What is Kosher? Doesn't a rabbi just bless the food?
2. [6]How can I learn about Kashrut? Is there a "Kosher" FAQ?
3. [7]There are a wide variety of kosher symbols. How do I learn
who's behind them?
4. [8]I'm going to be in (insert city here). How do I find the kosher
restaurants?
5. [9]Do I need to have a kosher kitchen and kosher home to keep
kosher?
6. [10]I have heard that Polish Orthodox Jews wait 6 hours between
eating milchig and fleishig and Dutch Orthodox Jews wait about an
hour. Why?
7. [11]Why do Sephardim and Ashkenazim have different customs
regarding permissible foods on Pesach (Passover)?
8. [12]I'm a vegetarian health-food proponent. Is kosher food
healthier?
9. [13]Is vegetarianism kosher?
10. [14]What process is involved in Kosher Slaughter?
11. [15]I work in a prison, and I have an inmate that is demanding
Kosher Food? How do I know if his claim is justified?
12. [16]What are the issues involving Filet Minion?
13. [17]Why don't Jews eat Pork?
14. [18]Would the laws of Kashrut prevent Mad Cow Disease?
15. [19]Is Monkfish Kosher?
16. [20]Why do Jews separate Milk and Meat?
17. [21]Must Jews use wine?
18. [22]Are there parts of a kosher animal that cannot be eaten?
19. [23]I have a friend coming over that keeps Kosher. What do I do?
Section 7:
Shabbat Observance
1. [5]What is the Jewish Sabbath and why is it on Saturday?
2. [6]Why do my Orthodox Jewish friends leave work early on Fridays
and before Jewish holidays?
3. [7]Why can't Jews use electrical appliances and motor vehicles on
Shabbat?
4. [8]Why are there 18 minutes from the time candle lighting starts
on Shabbat until the last time you can light?
5. [9]I've heard that Jews can't tear on Shabbat? Why? What is
"work"?
6. [10]How do people know when to light candles in the Arctic?
7. [11]What is the significance of Challah?
8. [12]Why do women wave their hands three times before lighting
Shabbat [or Holiday] candles?
9. [13]What is an Eruv?
10. [14]If your home is burning, can you put out the fire on Shabbat?
11. [15]What Medical Procedures May Be Performed on Shabbat?
12. [16]What happens on Shabbat?
13. [17]Do Conservative Jews play musical instruments on Shabbat?
14. [18]Why is there a prohibition on travel on Shabbat?
15. [19]Can an observant Jew use a camera on Shabbat?
Section 8:
Woman and Marriage
1. [5]What role do women play in Judaism?
2. [6]What is the Conservative view of the role of women in Judaism?
3. [7]What is the Reform view of the role of women in Judaism?
4. [8]What is the Orthodox view of the role of women in Judaism?
5. [9]Is it true that Orthodox men bless G-d every morning for not
making them a woman? What do you mean, this isn't terrible?
6. [10]I've heard polygamy is permissible among Sephardic and
Yemenite Jews. Doesn't Judaism mandate monogamy?
7. [11]What does clean/unclean refer to?
8. [12]What is "Niddah"?
9. [13]I've heard that Orthodox men can't touch women. Is this true?
10. [14]Are there any rituals for purification after childbirth for
women?
11. [15]What is the Jewish position on contraception and abortion?
12. [16]How does Judaism view Marriage?
13. [17]How do Jews find Mates?
14. [18]What is a Jewish Marriage?
15. [19]What happens before a Jewish Wedding?
16. [20]What happens during a Jewish Wedding?
17. [21]What happens after a Jewish Wedding?
18. [22]What should I wear to a Jewish wedding?
19. [23]Why is the glass broken at Jewish weddings?
20. [24]What is a Ketubah?
21. [25]What are the "Seven Blessings"?
22. [26]What does Judaism say about premarital sex?
23. [27]What are some good wedding greetings?
24. [28]Can a wife refuse to have marital relations with her husband?
25. [29]What should a man do if his wife leaves him for another man?
26. [30]Can a Jewish woman who has not been to a mikvah get married in
an Orthodox wedding?
27. [31]Is it possible for a Cohanim to marry a divorced Jewish woman?
28. [32]I've heard Jews can't get married on certain days. What are
they?
29. [33]What is the role of the parents or the rabbi at a wedding?
30. [34]How long after a spouse dies can the surviving partner
remarry? Must they marry their spouse's younger brother?
31. [35]What relationships are prohibited?
32. [36]What is the restriction on woman to sing in public and infront
of men?
33. [37]What can be done if the wife refuses to sign the get (divorce
decree)?
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