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Perhaps the greatest legacy of America’s first Jews, however, was their faith in their power to effect change.
The attack in Boulder, Colorado, took place hours before the start of a major Jewish festival, Shavuot. Eight people were injured, some with burns.
The dual Jewish calendar reminds us that when all seems lost, sometimes God will step in, and sometimes man will step up. And it is in those in-between moments that miracles will happen.
Google’s calendar app stopped listing Black History Month, Indigenous People Month, Jewish American Heritage Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Pride Month, Women’s History Month, International Holocaust ...
Christmas and Hanukkah will coincide on December 25, 2024, due to the differences between the solar-based Gregorian calendar and the lunar-based Hebrew calendar. This rare alignment occurs because ...
Jewish authors confront growing backlash in literary world Calling Jewish writers Zionists as an epithet and the reason to be excluded from the annals of publishing unless we denounce our ...
However, Hillel II created the calendar based on the assumption that the world would exist for 6,000 years. Baxter has done a fantastic job writing this comprehensive work on the Jewish calendar.
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.
Considered the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur is the culmination of a 10-day period of repentance and reflection, which began last week with the start of Rosh Hashanah.
The first-ever Pawsitively Jewish Calendar features Instagram-famous pups hailing from as far as Israel and Canada celebrating Jewish pride.
City University of New York students have no-class days on some Jewish holidays. That’s not the case for Eid al-Fitr, the holiest day on the Islamic calendar. Spencer Platt, Getty Images ...