River Town school districts have recently added two holidays to their calendars—Juneteenth, in commemoration of the emancipation of enslaved people, and Lunar New Year, an Asian holiday celebrated on ...

(JNS) — The European Union presents itself as a defender of democracy, fairness and human rights. It claims to promote peace and cooperation among nations. However, when it comes to Israel, the ...

Jewish Calendar - CalJ allows users to keep track of Jewish holidays, Shabbat times and other important events. It includes Zmanim reminders and conversions from Jewish to secular dates.

So is the 104-year-old Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center where she has worshipped since she was a child. The January fire destroyed the menorahs she lit for Hanukkah and the growing collection of ...

The Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar based on lunar months that begins with the first day of Rosh Hashanah, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department.

Passover, a Jewish holiday celebrating the emancipation ... each year because it depends on the lunar cycles of the Jewish calendar. While Easter Sunday can happen anywhere between March 22 ...

All we needed was a non-Jewish buyer. That should have been easy. The reason we’d moved to Philadelphia and joined this synagogue two years earlier was for my job as a professor of biblical ...

(JTA) — Jewish fans of HBO’s “The Pitt” heard a familiar verse in the hit medical drama’s latest episode when the show’s main character, Dr. Michael Robinavitch, consoled himself by reciting the Shema ...

The Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar, also based on lunar months, that begins with the first day of Rosh Hashanah. According to The Old Farmer's Almanac and long-term averages calculated by ...

The Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar, also based on lunar months, that begins with the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Here's when Easter and Passover are this year and why they fall "late" in ...