Holidays Around the World

Show how one holiday (e.g., Passover or Rosh Hashanah) looks in three countries.

Children wonder and discover; you facilitate more than you lecture.

• How do different Jewish communities celebrate the same holidays?
• What stays the same everywhere?

Jews everywhere share the same calendar and core observances, but customs, foods, and melodies vary beautifully — Moroccan, Indian, Ethiopian, American, and more.

• Minhag — custom
• Edah — community

“Which way is the right way?”

All of them! The same holiday has many beautiful customs around the world.

• Children experience diverse global celebrations.
• Children understand the calendar is shared by Jews everywhere.

A central ‘window’ unit: celebrate the global, multicultural Jewish family.

Folktale. Djoha and the Pot (Sephardi / Ladino) — a trickster’s upside-down logic, told around Sephardi tables.

Changemaker. Flory Jagoda — a Sephardi musician who saved Ladino songs and traditions for new generations.

How is one holiday the same and different across the world’s Jewish communities?

“We toured holidays around the world. Try at home: share your family’s heritage customs, or learn a new one.”