Concord Monitor2d
City removes day from diversity and inclusion calendar following concern from Jewish organization
Late last month, a leader in New Hampshire’s Jewish community reached out to Concord staff to express concern about a ...
Christmas and Hanukkah share a date this year. Their connection runs even deeper | Opinion
Christmas and Hanukkah share a date this year. An important connection between them is that they are both celebrations of ...
Bill McEwen19d
In a Calendar Rarity, Hanukkah Starts This Year on Christmas Day
It comes from reaching out.” Why is Hanukkah so late this year? The simple answer is that the Jewish calendar is based on lunar cycles, and is not in sync with the Gregorian calendar which sets ...
NorthJersey.com21d
What's a Jewish leap year? The key to 2024's rare Christmas-Hanukkah convergence
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 ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs24d
How often does the first day of Hanukkah fall on Christmas?
The two holidays also happened on the same day in 1959, 1921 and 1910. The Hebrew calendar is different from the Gregorian calendar, which is the primary dating system of the Western world.
How often does the first day of Hanukkah fall on Christmas?
This year, the first day of Hanukkah falls on Christmas Day, for the first time in nearly two decades. In just over a century ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency28d
Convert cuts up in one-man show ‘Circumcise Me’
NEW YORK (JTA) — Did comedian Yisrael Campbell convert to Judaism for the jokes ... on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Campbell cites Jewish funnymen Woody Allen and the late Lenny Bruce ...