News

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.
Digitizing the calendar amounted to a translation effort that only someone versed in Jewish law, Hebrew, mathematics and coding could undertake. This combination of skills is now fairly common ...
The fall quarter at most UC campuses will start a week later than usual and winter break will be a week shorter in the 2014-15 school year as the schools seek to avoid beginning their terms during ...
But Baxter writes of the long-term accuracy of the Jewish calendar, as there will be serious problems in about 8,800 years when the first day of Pesach will be June 22, which is in the summer, not ...
Hundreds gathered outside the John F. Kennedy Federal Building to mark the saddest holiday of the Jewish calendar with a lamentation for the suffering of undocumented immigrants.
Since a lunar month lasts about 29.53 days, each month on the Jewish calendar is either 29 or 30 days long. A regular year on the Jewish calendar, therefore, is about 11 days shorter than a full ...
The leap year consisted of an extra month of Adar, so that in leap years, the lunar calendar would have 384 days, to even things out. This also demonstrates the power given to the Rabbis.
Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, starts late this year. Last year, in 2021, the holiday started on Nov. 28, and 2020 it started on Dec. 10. This year, we light our first candle for the ...
Passover began on April 12 and will continue through the upcoming weekend. Passover is a Jewish holiday during the month of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. It usually falls on a day in March or ...
The first-ever Pawsitively Jewish Calendar features Instagram-famous pups hailing from as far as Israel and Canada celebrating Jewish pride.
The calendar is still in the works, but the creator of the "Nice Jewish Guys" calendar said he started the original back in 2009 and wants to cut out the copycats. "I want to protect that.