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 ...

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 ...

The Park City School District may add the Jewish New Year celebration, Rosh Hashanah, to the school holiday calendar next ...

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 ...

To make the distressing incident even worse, it came hours before Yom Kippur, the most solemn religious holiday in the Jewish calendar. Local residents took to social media to express their shock ...

A “National Day of Mourning” on the Hebrew calendar for the one-year commemoration of the October 7 Hamas massacre was approved by the government at its weekly meeting on Sunday in Jerusalem.

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

When it came time to swear in his new foreign minister, Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, turned to one of his favorite ...

Maxa was asking if she knew about a space large enough to host his growing congregation, Ec Chajim, for the holiest day in the Jewish calendar — its own space, which opened four years ago about ...

The new moon occurs on Nov. 1, and three days later the moon will make a close pass to Venus in the evening sky. The new moon occurs on Nov. 1, at 8:47 a.m. Eastern Time (1247 GMT). Three days ...

From religious and cultural holidays to region-specific commemorations, the holiday calendars across the 50 states and the ...

"Ten years ago, when we came to Israel with this initiative, not everyone believed we could embed the 26th of Iyar as a day of victory and gratitude in the Jewish calendar," he recalled.