The Jewish case against the projected reform of the calendar by the insertion of “blank days” which would make the Sabbath a movable day in relation to the week, was explained to-day to the ...

The issue will be highlighted this weekend because of Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar and one of the few times a year most U.S. Jews go to synagogue.

(Jewish Daily Bulletin) Objection to the proposed calendar reform now under consideration by the National Committee on Calendar Simplification here was voiced by the Jewish Sabbath Alliance of ...

The IFC comprised 13 months of 28 days. The benefit of the new calendar was uniformity. Each month would start on a Sunday and end on a Saturday, so you’d never have to ask, for example, what ...

Ze’ev Orzech writes from Corvallis, Ore.: “I am intrigued by the connection between the Hebrew name for the planet Saturn, shabtai, which comes from Shabbat, and the word ‘Satur’ or ...

Shifts in the Hebrew calendar to ensure major holidays avoid the Sabbath cause Hanukkah to never fall on Nov 27. By the 3030s, this misalignment of the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars builds up to ...