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

Passover allows Jewish people to remember the liberation of the Israelites. There are symbolic foods, stories and depending ...

In the Jewish calendar, a new month begins with the new moon. The Hebrew word for month is chodesh which also means newness. Each of the twelve months brings in new energies and offers unique ...

But Jewish religious authorities have always recognized ... If Jews were to commemorate each and every national tragedy on its anniversary, the calendar ... Voters rejected multiple ballot ...

Note that this open letter is addressed to Hamas supporters, not members of that terrorist organization. We have in mind the ...

(photo credit: CHEN SCHIMMEL) Next Thursday, the Jewish calendar will have come full circle since Simchat Torah 5784. October 7 has infused every holiday since then with an extra layer of meaning ...

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 ...

The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati's CEO spoke to The Enquirer about the difficult year since last Oct. 7 and her message of ...

Israelis on Sunday mark the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the unprecedented Hamas attack on October 7 last year that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza. Separate ceremonies will be held at the Mount ...

Angels appear in the Torah reading for this week on the Jewish calendar. In the opening lines of Genesis 18, God visits Abraham among the oak-like trees of Mamre as Abraham is sitting, recovering from ...

It is characteristic of the Jewish calendar to balance seriousness with fun, intensity with levity. This year, in a new home in rural Ontario, my husband took full advantage. “As soon as Yom ...

When I met Retzlaff on campus a couple of days later, I told him about the earnest Mormon’s concern over his compliance with Jewish law, and he laughed. “That’s fandom,” he told me. Retzlaff, who wore ...