The Festival of Lights may sound familiar to Ohio Valley residents who are accustomed to visiting Oglebay’s Winter Festival of Lights, but a far older tradition is using the phrase to describe the ...

Because the start of Hanukkah is tied to the Hebrew calendar, the dates change from ... Holy Land was ruled by Seleucids who tried to convert the Jewish people to Greek culture and religion.

For Christmas and the start of Hanukkah, which fall on the same day this year, readers seek hope, peace and goodwill across ...

Full or part-time Disney employees can log their volunteer hours and Disney will make a financial contribution to the Jack and Lee Rosen Jewish Community Center, no matter where you volunteered your ...

Convert Gregorian to Jewish dates with holidays and zmanim (Diaspora/Israel).

A "Christmukkah" as rare as this one occurs due to the Hebrew calendar not aligning with the Gregorian calendar, causing the ...

In a tumultuous year, JTA essayists struggled with the trauma of the Israel-Hamas war and the impact of a polarizing election ...

Chabad Lubavitch of the Panhandle, Tallahassee and FSU, a Jewish outreach organization, staged its 24th annual Jewish ...

The Jewish calendar system is very intricate but can be summed up with a few rules, said Rabbi Baruch Fogel, a Judaic studies lecturer at Touro University in Manhattan: "Each month is either 29 or ...