{"id":1264,"date":"2024-05-01T13:53:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T13:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/2024\/05\/01\/may-is-jewish-heritage-month-2\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T13:53:23","slug":"may-is-jewish-heritage-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/2024\/05\/01\/may-is-jewish-heritage-month-2\/","title":{"rendered":"May is Jewish Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May is Jewish Heritage Month in Canada.<\/strong> The Jewish-Canadian community has existed for more than 250 years. The Jewish-identifying population in Canada is estimated at 400,000. There is prominent representation in Ontario, and in Waterloo Region there is a small, well-represented local community.<\/p>\n<p>Jewish Heritage Month is an opportunity for us to recognize and celebrate the significant contributions that Jewish Canadians have made to our country&#8217;s cultural, social and economic fabric.<\/p>\n<h2>Facts About Judaism<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Judaism is the oldest of the world\u2019s three prominent monotheistic religions &#8211; Christianity and Islam being the other two. A monotheistic religion means the belief in a single Creator.<\/li>\n<li>The holiday of Shavuot marks the anniversary of the National Revelation at Mt. Sinai where God presented the Jewish people with the Torah, a spiritual guide on how to use life properly.<\/li>\n<li>The Torah is comprised of two sections &#8211; Torah She\u2019biktav, the Written Torah and Torah Sh\u2019Baal Peh, the Oral Torah. Many Jews view Torah learning as a daily activity necessary for self-development.<\/li>\n<li>Sundown on Friday evening marks the beginning of the weekly Shabbat (Sabbath), which lasts until Saturday evening. The word \u201cShabbat\u201d translates to \u201cRest\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Judaism sees food, when used properly, as an opportunity for self-development. It\u2019s no surprise then that food features prominently on most Jewish Holidays:\n<ul>\n<li>Potato Latkes on Channukah<\/li>\n<li>Hamantaschen on Purim<\/li>\n<li>Challah Bread on the Weekly Shabbat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May is Jewish Heritage Month in Canada. The Jewish-Canadian community has existed for more than 250 years. The Jewish-identifying population in Canada is estimated at 400,000. There is prominent representation in Ontario, and in Waterloo Region there is a small, well-represented local community. Jewish Heritage Month is an opportunity for us to recognize and celebrate [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\" role=\"complementary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/2024\/05\/01\/may-is-jewish-heritage-month-2\/\"><strong>Read more about<\/strong> <cite>May is Jewish Heritage Month<\/cite> &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}