How the Jewish calendar got coded — and how ingenious coders made it happen. ... a Ukrainian-born mathematician, was a pioneer of early American computing, By Wikimedia Commons.

PALACES OF TIME: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe, by Dr. Elisheva Carlebach, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2011, 292 pages, $35. Harvard University Press has given t… ...

Known cheerily as the Day of Atonement, it’s one of the High Holy Days and is considered the most important day of the year in the Jewish calendar. Famously, American baseball legend Sandy ...