A local organization is raising money to convert a vacant Troy church building into a Jewish community center, designed to ...

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

This July Fourth, members of the Jewish faith can take particular pride in one of their rabbis likely inspiring America’s ...

Elie Wiesel may not have lived to see the latest devastating wave of antisemitism, but he did prepare us to confront it. Let ...

Christmas and Hanukkah will coincide on December 25, 2024, due to the differences between the solar-based Gregorian calendar and the lunar-based Hebrew calendar. This rare alignment occurs because ...

The dual Jewish calendar reminds us that when all seems lost, sometimes God will step in, and sometimes man will step up. And it is in those in-between moments that miracles will happen.

The dates for Passover are based on the Hebrew calendar. It always falls on the 15th day of the month of Nissan, which is the first full moon after the spring equinox.

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 ...

While the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah often falls at varying points during November and December, this year's festival of lights begins a bit later - and it comes with a calendar rarity. In 2024 ...

That Hebrew calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar cycles. But the Gregorian calendar established by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 defines one year by the time it takes for Earth to ...