Hasidic Jews reciting Tashlikh

The Kol Nidrei prayer in a machzor from the 1270s

Several etrogim at a market in Bnei Brak

Dancing on Simchat Torah

A mezuzah case

Map of the Pale of Settlement
with the percentage of Jews shown

The first page of the Talmud

The borders of the Land of Israel,
according to one interpretation

A kippah

The cantillation symbols according to the Ashkenazi tradition

A washing cup used for netilat yadayim

Various menoras for Hanukkah,
from the 12th to 17th centuries

Ben Retik lights the Menorah as President Barack Obama,
Vice President Joe Biden and First Lady Michelle Obama
take part in the Hanukkah Candle Lighting at the White House

A traditional study hall at Yeshivat Ohr Yerushalayim

Tzimmes, a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish carrot stew

a Torah scroll

A man leaning on his right arm
while reciting Tachanun

Silver items meant for decorating Torah scrolls.
They were in the Opatów Synagogue
until the Nazi occupation of Poland,
when they were lost (presumably stolen).

a Tu Bishvat seder

a model of the Second Temple

A traditional Tallit draped over several Hebrew texts.

A plate of Hamentashen, a pastry often eaten on Purim

A gragger, a noisemaker used on Purim
to drown out the sound of Haman's name

A Jewish elementary school in Bnei Brak

A pair of Shabbat candles

A Passover Hagadah from Germany in 1300

Three matzot

Some traditional foods for the
North African Jewish holiday Mimouna

A chart for the Counting of the Omer,
depicting the number of days in the omer (top)
and its equivalent in number of
weeks (middle) and days (bottom)

A pair of Tefillin

A Lag Ba'omer bonfire

Ruins of a synagogue in Nowy Korczyn, Poland

Cheese blintzes, traditionally consumed on Shavuot

An illuminated ketubah

A coin minted during the Bar Kokhba Revolt
Obverse: trumpets surrounded by "To the freedom of Jerusalem".
Reverse: A lyre surrounded by "Year two to the freedom of Israel"

A Yahrtzeit candle, lit as a memorial to the dead

An elaborate tzedakah box

A silver mayim aharonim set

Map of the Siege of Jerusalem with the movements of the Roman army

Excavated stones from the wall of the Second Temple,
knocked onto the street below by Roman battering rams in on the 9 Av, 70 CE

A synagogue on Tisha B'av,
with the Parochet removed from the Torah Ark

A plate of gefilte fish with carrots and horseradish

A heter iska document,
which enables loan-like contracts in Jewish law

A shofar, blown during the month of Elul

A Yemenite shofar made from a horn of the greater kudu

A shofar, blown during the month of Elul

Some symbols of Rosh Hashanah