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The weekly Torah portion (Parashat ha-Shavua), popularly just parashah (or parshah or parsha) and also known as a Sidra (or Sedra) is a section of the Torah (Five Books of Moses) used in Jewish liturgy during a single week.

It is chanted publicly and aloud by a designated reader (ba'al koreh) in Jewish prayer services, starting with a partial reading on the afternoon of Shabbat (Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath), again during the Monday and Thursday morning services, and ending with a full reading during the following Shabbat morning services.

The weekly reading is pre-empted by a special reading on major religious holidays.

The Saturday morning and holiday readings are followed by a reading (Haftarah) from the Book of Prophets (Nevi'im).

There are 54 weekly parashiyot (plural) or parshahs (anglicized pluralization) in Judaism, and the full cycle is read over the course of one Jewish year.

Shabbat ("rest" or "cessation") or Shabbos or the Sabbath is Judaism's day of rest and seventh day of the week, on which religious Jews and certain Christians (such as Seventh-day Adventists and Seventh Day Baptists) remember the Biblical creation of the heavens and the earth in six days and the Exodus of the Hebrews, and look forward to a future Messianic Age.

Shabbat observance entails refraining from work activities, often with great rigor, and engaging in restful activities to honor the day.

Judaism's traditional position is that unbroken seventh-day Shabbat originated among the Jewish people, as their first and most sacred institution, though some suggest other origins.

Variations upon Shabbat are widespread in Judaism and, with adaptations, throughout the Abrahamic and many other religions.

Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah (Ashkenazi pronunciation: "Bas Mitzvah") (plural: B'nai Mitzvah for boys, and B'not Mitzvah – Ashkenazi pronunciation: "B'nos Mitzvah" – for girls) are Jewish coming of age rituals.

A Western Wall camera, also known as a wallcam, is a live webcam that displays action at the Western Wall live as it is taking place.

The Holocaust (from the Greek ': hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"), also referred to as the Shoah (Hebrew, HaShoah, "the catastrophe"), was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis.

The victims included 1.5 million children, and represented about two-thirds of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe.

A broader definition of the Holocaust includes non-Jewish victims of the Nazi campaign of mass murder, based on biological factors, such as the Romani, and the Aktion T4 patients who were mentally and physically disabled.