What do Julius Caesar, Pope Gregory XII and the Hebrew calendar have to do with one another? It’s a centuries long story that ...

In response to their brief expulsion and restoration, they created an annual holiday on the 20th of Adar called Vinz ... to the current moment in the Jewish calendar, which follows the lunar ...

There’s a long-running debate among observant Jews about whether it is appropriate, in Jewish law ... national tragedy on its anniversary, the calendar ... Voters rejected multiple ballot ...

In the secular calendar, a new month begins in the middle of the moon’s cycle. In the Jewish calendar, a new month begins with the new moon. The Hebrew word for month is chodesh which also means ...

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

As Rosh Hashanah concludes, it leads up to Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. There are a number of ...

Considered the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur is the culmination of a 10-day period of repentance and reflection, which began last week with the start of Rosh Hashanah. This year's ...

The menorah is the brainchild of Justin and Michelle Esgar, a New Jersey couple who have made a habit of throwing schticky ...

JTA — For many Jews across the United States and the globe, memories of last year’s Shemini Atzeret and Simhat Torah will forever revolve around grim phone alerts and hushed conversations in ...

Rumors of this have been floating around the Jewish world for a long time — long enough for us to wonder: Is it true? The definitive essay on the subject comes to us from Jonathan Sarna of ...

for the annual homecoming game would even be aware that Saturday was the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. But this is no typical year: The star quarterback for BYU, Jake Retzlaff, is Jewish.