Community leaders express reserved optimism that an end may finally be in sight for an excruciating chapter in Jewish history ...

Born 300 years ago in 1725, the legendary Italian libertine Casanova had a utilitarian relationship to Jews, Judaism and ...

From this week’s Torah portion, we learn that it is specifically through standing strong and with pride in our identity that ...

GREENVILLE, SC – Tickets go on sale tomorrow as the Greenville Jewish Film Festival’s Pop-Up Movie series returns Sunday, February 9 at 4 p.m. at the Camelot Cinemas with the ...

I find it especially ironic that the Times faults Israel for not loosening the unprecedented, extraordinary precautions that only the Jewish state has put in place to limit civilian casualties.

The event commemorates a period in Jewish history when Assyrian-Greeks took control of Jerusalem and tried to ban Jewish customs and religious practices. But a small group of Jewish people fought ...

The lyrics of a traditional song — "Hanukkah, oh Hanukkah" — rang through the basement of Aiken's Adath Yeshurun Synagogue Dec. 29 as the congregation marked the fifth night of the Jewish ...

If history had taken a different course, Jewish messianism might have a wholly different meaning altogether — and it might still. The Prehistory of the Messiah Schneerson was the seventh Rebbe, or ...

Hanukkah, also spelt Chanukah, is a Jewish festival known as the "Festival of Lights," celebrated for eight days and nights, beginning on the 25th of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar. The Hebrew word ...

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. Hanukkah always begins on the 25th day of ...

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 ...

In 2024, Christmas and Hanukkah will coincide on December 25, but the reason behind this rare occurrence lies in the differences between the Gregorian and Jewish calendars. Christmas is celebrated ...