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

Hanukkah changes every year but 2024's Jewish festival coincides with Christmas, starting at sunset on December 25 and continuing for eight nights.

This calendar included the dates of Sabbaths, holidays, and fast days, providing a Hebrew date for every day of the war.….The Jewish underground heard about this calendar and copied it, and ...

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape ...

Rosh Hashanah, or the Jewish New Year, began on evening Oct. 2 and last through the evening on Oct. 4 this year. Here's what to know about the holiday.

A: The Jewish custom is to use the Hebrew calendar, which expresses faith in God, the Creator of the world, and its months are those by which the holidays are determined.

It’s the only Jewish holiday that is two days long both outside and inside Israel. Ancient Jews relied on a calendar based on actual cycles of the moon, not one arbitrarily set.

Significance of Christmas and Hanukkah falling on the same day 05:24. This year, the first night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah fell on the same day as Christmas for the first time since 2005.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man swings a chicken over his kid's head in Bnei Brak, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024 as part of the Kaparot ritual a day before the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.

Following Rosh Hashanah on the calendar, Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year for people of the Jewish faith. With this holiday , God's judgment is final for the year, and repentance is crucial.

Passover is coming up, and so the Jewish holiday is top of mind. You might be wondering why, ... The date for Passover is based on the Hebrew lunar-based calendar.

While the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah often falls at varying points during November and December, this year's festival of lights begins a bit later - and it comes with a calendar rarity.