Of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion; Also called: Judaic.

Pertaining to the Yiddish language.

unleavened bread; Passover cake; pl. feast of such bread.

Member of the Semitic people who lived in Palestine at the time of the Old Testament and who traced their ancestry to Abraham of Ur, a city of Sumer.
Also the language of the Old Testament and Judaic literature, as well as the official language (since 1948) of the state of Israel, one of the Semitic languages of the Hamito-Semitic (Afro-Asiatic) family.
The Hebrew people were widely dispersed during the Roman Empire and learned the languages and cultures of those they lived among in Europe, the Near East, Asia, and (after 1492) the Americas, but continued using liturgical Hebrew in prayer, as well as the ancient Hebrew alphabet to write both sacred works in Hebrew and secular works in Yiddish, a 13th-century High German dialect. In the late 19th century, Hebrew was revived as a modern language, by the European Haskala movement, in both spoken and written forms.
The ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel.

Member of black Jewish tribe of Ethiopia.
Member of a small community of black Jews originating in Ethiopia. They suffered discrimination there and, after being accorded Jewish status by Israel 1975, began a gradual process of resettlement in Israel. By the early 1980s only about 30,000 Falashim remained in Ethiopia, and the final emigration to Israel took place during the collapse of the Mengistu regime 1991.
The Falashim refer to themselves as Beta Israel (“House of Israel”).

ETYM Old Eng. kalendes month, calends, AS. calend month, from Latin calendae; akin to calare to call, proclaim, Greek. CF. Claim.
The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar. Written also.
First day of month in ancient Roman calendar. at the Greek calends, never.

Varian of Hanukkah.

An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem; Also called: Hanukah, Chanukah, Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication, Feast of the Dedication.

Book of the Old Testament written c. 750 BC. One of the prophets, Amos was a shepherd who foretold the destruction of Israel because of the people's abandonment of their faith.