Known in Hebrew as Bein HaMetzarim (“between the straits”), the Three Weeks mark a period of national mourning in the Jewish ...

A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the ...

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

A s someone who has served in the church for over four decades, I’ve witnessed movements come and go, trends rise and fall, ...

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Pittsburgh Regional Transit hopes to make bus and subway rides a little less sour, with a new pickle-themed campaign reminding riders to steer clear of jarring behavior. “Keep it kosher,” one sign ...

What is Shavuot? The Jewish festival that started hours after Boulder, Colorado, attack Hebrew for “weeks,” Shavuot has been observed since biblical times.

Sunday afternoon's attack in Boulder, Colorado, took place hours before the start of a major Jewish festival, Shavuot.

Rosh Hashanah. Yom Kippur. They’re two of the most familiar – and important – days on the Jewish religious calendar, but did you know that the two events are strongly connected? And what do ...

The following month, on October 6 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise, co-ordinated attack on Israel. It was Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, and the ensuing war lasted ...

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.