For many, this past week marked the start of a new year. That’s true for the Jewish community too, though let us create ...

Residents of the 210-unit Gurwin Jewish-Fay J. Lindner Residences in Commack offer life advice to the next generation.

A Jewish nonprofit executive argues for a contemporary successor to the Catskills, where families can be together in a ...

Late last month, a leader in New Hampshire’s Jewish community reached out to Concord staff to express concern about a ...

It’s just the fifth time in the last 114 years this has happened. In the Hebrew calendar, months are based on the moon’s cycles, while Christianity works off the Gregorian calendar — which ...

Christmas: Celebrated on December 25 each year, Christmas follows the Gregorian calendar, a solar calendar used worldwide for civil purposes. Hanukkah: Hanukkah follows the Hebrew lunar calendar ...

To ensure that the Jewish holidays align with their traditional seasons on the Gregorian calendar, the primary dating system used by the Western world, an additional "leap month" is added to the ...

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 ...

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 ...