Customs and traditions - Mother Tongue

Afghanistan

Herat

Counting of the Omer

Engagement and wedding customs

Making matzot for Passover

Passover customs

Prayer and special customs teaching

Rosh Hashana customs

Seliḥoth (Jewish penitential prayers)

Shavuot customs

Traditional family visit during the holidays

Tu BiShvat customs

Yom Kippur customs

Algeria

El Oued (Souf)

Brit mila

Brit mila

Hafrashat ḥalla (separating the ḥalla)

Lighting candles for Shabbat and holidays

Passover customs

Passover preparations

Passover Seder plate

Rosh Ḥodesh (first of the month) customs

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Bukhara

Bishkek

Against the "evil eye" custom

Godspeed custom

Godspeed custom

Dushanbe

Passover Seder (part A)

Samarkand

Against the "evil eye" custom

Godspeed custom

Godspeed custom

Passover Seder (part B)

Shahrisabz

Against the "evil eye" custom

Godspeed custom

Godspeed custom

Caucasus

Derbent

Jewish tradition and the connection to Israel

Matchmaking, engagement and wedding

Tishʿa BeʾAv and bereavement costumes

Wedding and bar mitzva

Women's customs, women in the arts and culture

Mountain Jews (Dagestan)

Bar mitzva

Bereavement customs and her mother's death

Birth, naming and children's care

Engagement and wedding

Matchmaking and introduction with the spouse

Nalchik

Wedding and bar mitzva

Egypt

Cairo

Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur customs

Europe: Western

Endingen

Children games in Ḥanukka

Newlyweds customs and Ḥanukka games

Strolling around Baden, wedding and birth customs, Shabbat cooking, Sukkot and lullabies

Lengnau (Switzerland)

Newlyweds customs and Ḥanukka games

Lucerne

Children games in Ḥanukka

Zurich (Switzerland)

Children games in Ḥanukka

Strolling around Baden, wedding and birth customs, Shabbat cooking, Sukkot and lullabies

Georgia

Greece

India

Mumbai

Wedding ceremonies

Iran

Bijar

Jewish holidays

Religion and belief

Shabbat customs

Golpayegan

Rivka's mother and bereavement customs

Isfahan

Matchmaking and wedding preparations

Wedding preparations

Israel

Wedding customs and songs

Kermanshah

Nowruz (Iranian New Year)

Nahawand

Mikve, wedding and brit mila

Sanandaj

Rosh Ḥodesh (first of the month) customs

Shabbat: foods and customs

Shiraz

Persian 'Mimouna' (Shiraz)

Takab

Wedding customs and songs

Tekab

Bar mitzva

Brit mila and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Iraq

Baghdad

Holiday dishes and customs

Passover Seder plate

Shabbat customs and foods

The community's customs

Baqubah

Purim

Israel

Peqi'in

Kashrut (dietary laws)

Lighting candles

Synagogue

Kurdistan

Baghdad

Birth and bereavement

Erbil

Bar mitzva

Female abduction, wedding and love songs

Wedding and bar mitzva

Mosul

Birth and bereavement

Qapʾachʾan

Wedding and family

Zakho

Birth and bereavement

Jokes, songs and Night of Huza

Night of Hosha'ana Rabba

Passover customs

Passover preparations

Rosh Hashana customs

Saharana

Six days before the Brit ceremony

ʿAbad

Daily life and Shabbat preparation

Wedding and birth

Lebanon

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

Bar mitzva, engagement and wedding

Libya

Az-Zawiya

Bsisa

Congratulations and greetings

Slat Ibn Shaif Synagogue

Benghazi

Bereavement customs and the name of the community's Rabbi

Blessings

Holidays and customs (Purim, girls' Shabbat and ḥenna)

Protection against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and entering a new home

Tripoli

Mimouna: the holiday of engagement

Piyyutim on Shabbat eve

Songs and Piyyutim

Morocco

Agdz

Bereavement customs

Status of women and matchmaking

Asammer

Women's immersion

Asslen

Birth and naming the child

Matchmaking, engagement and wedding

Ayt Rbiʕ

Wedding, mikve, ḥenna and marriage life

Azemmour

Jews of the Atlas mountains (Shluḥ)

Casablanca

Bar mitzva

Birth

Differences between the Jewish communities in Morocco

Jews of the Atlas mountains (Shluḥ)

Life in Morocco

Shabbat, holidays and Mimouna

Wedding customs

Fes

Pregnancy, birth, brit mila and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Proverbs, curses and blessings

Marrakesh

Bar mitzva in Marrakesh

Bein Hametzarim (The Three Weeks)

Brit mila in Marrakesh

Counting of the Omer

Customs of Berber Jews

Differences between the Jewish communities in Morocco

Mimouna

Pregnancy, birth, brit mila and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Purim and Purim money

Mazagan (El Jadida)

Proverbs, curses and blessings

Ouled Mansour

Wedding and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Oumnass

Differences between the Jewish communities in Morocco

Safi

Brit mila

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Settat

Customs against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Telouet

Brit mila, wedding, Passover and education

Timztot

Bar mitzva and bat mitzva

Brit mila and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Matchmaking, engagement and wedding

Medicine, cosmetic products and folk remedies against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Songs and dances

Wedding and complementary ceremonies

Syria

Ḥalab

Community traditions

Father-son traditions

Qamishli

Father-son traditions

Tunisia

Beja

Customs: Se'udat Yitro (Feast of Jethro) and bsisa

Holidays and traditions during the months of Tevet and Adar

Djerba

Bsisa during Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan (first month of the Hebrew year)

Customs of Hoshaʿana Rabba (the seventh day of Sukkot) at the Trabelsi family

Customs: bsisa, Se'udat Yitro (Feast of Jethro), Daughters' Holiday and Passover

Djerba's customs (lel ha'zohar, brit mila, bar and bat mitzva, Lag Ba'omer)

Hatarat Nedarim (Annulment of vows and oaths)

Life in Djerba and connection to the land of Israel

Pre-wedding (part I)

Pre-wedding (part II)

Djerba (the large quarter)

Brit mila and Zohar

Wedding customs against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

El Ḥamma

Bsisa during Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan (first month of the Hebrew year)

Moknine

Walking and returning from the mikve

Turkey

Aydın

Family and community customs

Buenos Aires

Family and community customs

Istanbul

Aliya, tradition and holidays

Wedding and engagement

Yemen

Ḥaima

Birth and brit mila

Celebrations: customs and humility

Manners of payment amongst Jews

Songs of wedding and ḥenna

Wedding customs

Ḥajba

Engagement

Ḥawlan

Medicine, folk remedies and dealing with ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Mingide

Sanaʽa

Bereavement customs

The use of different plants

Sanaʿa

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

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