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 ...
It's the most wonderful time of the year. And for once, the most wonderful day. You can thank a Jewish Leap Year and other calendrical quirks. Christmas and Hanukkah are coming. On the same date. This ...
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Counting the days: How Jews clung to the Hebrew calendar as Nazis tried to erase it
A new exhibition at Yad Vashem highlights the extraordinary efforts made, often at risk of death, to preserve and mark the ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- This year, the evening of Wednesday, January 24, corresponds to the fifteenth day of the Jewish month of Shevat, which signifies a lesser known but fascinating Jewish holiday known ...
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