This one is not about a historical event, but is connected to the current moment in the Jewish calendar ... We do this by doubling the happy month of Adar, which also happens to be the month ...

Jewish Heritage Month, is an annual observance in the United States that takes place during the month of May. It is a celebration established to recognize and honor the contributions and achievements ...

The Talmud in tractate Ta’anit tells us that our happiness increases when the month of Adar begins. Until when ... Yet here we are in the Hebrew year of 5784, or 2024 now on the secular calendar. It’s ...

And then I said it for a year — or, rather, for 11 months. In Jewish tradition, we take a month back from the year, as far as saying Kaddish goes. The reason is less than inspiring: the saying ...

Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, will soon mark the end of the Jewish "High Holidays." Considered the holiest day of the Jewish calendar ... day during the month before the holiday.

A key celebration in the Jewish calendar is about to get under way this week which kicks-off the start of a series of autumn festivals for those who practise the faith. One of the holiest days in ...

An obscure Babylonian document from the world famous Dead Sea Scroll collection was almost certainly a precursor to the Jewish calendar according to University of Manchester research. Dr Helen Jacobus ...

This story originally appeared on My Jewish Learning ... Countless generations of seeking and suffering. In these last months, I have noticed the ancestors in me more than ever.

Noam Galai/Getty Bruce Springsteen was raised Catholic – but that hasn’t stopped people from mistakenly giving his last name a Jewish twist ... as late as a month ago. I’m not joking.” ...

the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. According to Toronto Police, the gunmen targeted the Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School at 4:05 a.m. Saturday morning. A suspect or suspects in a motor ...

A Jewish memorial in the city has been vandalised for a second time in less than a month. The Jewish memorial in Palmeira Square in Hove was reportedly attacked last night following news that ...