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 ...

Rosh Hashanah in 2025 will begin at sundown on Monday, Sept. 22, and continue through nightfall on Wednesday, Sept. 24.

The dates on these two calendars don’t neatly match up, so Hanukkah appears to change dates every year. On the Hebrew calendar, though, it always begins on the 25th of Kislev, the same as the ...

Hanukkah changes every year but 2024's Jewish festival coincides with Christmas, starting at sunset on December 25 and continuing for eight nights.

Hanukkah starts on Christmas Day this year. How often does that occur? Explaining the rare Chrismukkah convergence and other calendar oddities.

Hanukkah's start date on the Gregorian calendar varies year by year because the Jewish calendar is based on luni-solar calendar cycles. According to Chabad, months under the Hebrew calendar follow ...

Here's what to know about the holidays. What is Rosh Hashanah? It is the Jewish new year, and this year will mark the year 5785 on the Hebrew calendar.

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 ...

A fifteen-year-old boy being hunted by the Nazis uses the few scraps of paper he has to write out a painstakingly researched Jewish calendar. What motivated him to do this?

The Gregorian calendar, which is based on Earth's yearly progression around the Sun, and the lunar-solar Hebrew calendar, which also incorporates the phase of the Moon, don't line up very well.

Hanukkah this year runs from Dec. 25, 2024, through Jan. 2, 2025. The dates change every year because it's based on the Hebrew calendar.