Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years ...

Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world’s oldest known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years ...

Rabbi Yitzchok Zilberstein said that cholent is not only spiritually designated for Shabbat, but that its heavy ingredients ...

The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia’s Jewish Community Relations Council President Jason Holtzman spoke on a panel ...

The first test images from a groundbreaking observatory in Chile named for trailblazing American Jewish astronomer Vera Rubin have been dazzling stargazers, capturing the light from millions of ...

Spiritually, “between the straits” remains ever applicable. For anyone experiencing deep distress, mourning or despair, it ...

The small African Hebrew Israelite community in Israel’s Negev Desert last month celebrated a major milestone in its struggle for recognition in the Jewish state, as more than 100 members seem to have ...

Passover began on Saturday and will conclude on Sunday, April 20. The week-long holiday celebrates the liberation of Israelites from Egypt slavery.

The Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar based on lunar months that begins with the first day of Rosh Hashanah, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department. When is ...

Exactly one year on the Hebrew calendar after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, communities grapple with a seemingly irreconcilable commemoration ...

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In the secular calendar, a new month begins in the middle of the moon’s cycle. In the Jewish calendar, a new month begins with the new moon. The Hebrew word for month is chodesh which also means ...