The Jewish calendar is based on the lunar cycle. The civil calendar in use around the world, also known as the Gregorian calendar, is solar based. Hanukkah always starts on the 25 th day of the ...

REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - Tags: SOCIETY POLITICS RELIGION) The Jewish calendar system is very intricate but can be summed up with a few rules, said Rabbi Baruch Fogel, a Judaic studies ...

The current law on national holidays, which was updated last year, guarantees all employees 12 days off, many of them in connection with Christian holidays. (JTA) — Norway’s Jewish community ...

Hanukkah's start date on the Gregorian calendar varies year by year because the Jewish calendar is based on luni-solar calendar cycles. According to Chabad, months under the Hebrew calendar follow ...

The date fluctuates with the Gregorian calendar, which uses a solar dating system. The date is always the same on the Hebrew or Jewish calendar because it is timed with the moon. Judas Maccabeus ...

Hanukkah, which follows the Jewish calendar, always begins on the 25th day of Kislev, the ninth month of the Jewish calendar. Hanukkah can begin as early as November each year and will likely ...

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 Christmas on Dec. 25.

There’s a long-running debate among observant Jews about whether it is appropriate, in Jewish law ... national tragedy on its anniversary, the calendar ... David Weiss slammed the outgoing ...

(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) Hanukkah, an important holiday in the Jewish calendar, is celebrated for eight days every year. This year, the holiday falls between Dec. 25 and Jan. 2. The holiday ...

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 ...