and the following year it will fall on Dec. 4." The Jewish calendar was established in the fourth century, and it's not concerned only with Hanukkah. Jewish law requires that Passover take place ...

The exact date varies each year as it's based on the lunar calendar, and marks the beginning of the Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the "Days of Awe." Yom Kippur, the holiest ...

This year, it no longer feels like history. There’s a long-running debate among observant Jews about whether it is appropriate, in Jewish law, to establish days of mourning and fasting to ...

The Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar based on ... Easter is a “movable feast,” so it doesn’t happen on the same date from year to year, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.

Every year, Passover begins on the 15th day of Nisan, the first month of the Jewish calendar. The celebrations last for seven or eight days, depending on where the holiday is celebrated.

The division makes it possible to read all five books each year. While the secular calendar, based on the sun, contains 52 weeks of 365 and a quarter days, the Jewish calendar, based on the moon ...

PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG addresses a state ceremony at Yad Vashem marking Holocaust Remembrance Day last year. (photo credit: CHAIM GOLDBEG/FLASH90) The Jewish calendar, like Jewish life ...

According to the Almanac, Easter Sunday changes every year because it is fixed to a solar calendar and based on the lunar cycles of the Jewish calendar. It always occurs on the first Sunday after ...

We’re conditioned to put a greater value on whatever comes once a year, whether it’s Thanksgiving, July Fourth or the Academy Awards. The Jewish calendar is full of annual holidays ...

Like Easter, Passover dates vary from year to year, but they commemorate ... year because it depends on the lunar cycles of the Jewish calendar. While Easter Sunday can happen anywhere between ...