Rosh Hashanah in 2025 will begin at sundown on Monday, Sept. 22, and continue through nightfall on Wednesday, Sept. 24.

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape from destruction recorded in the Book of Esther. Haman, an early Hitler in ...

Hanukkah, known as the Festival of Lights, is based on the Jewish lunar calendar, which has months that follow the moon's cycles. A year in the Hebrew calendar is shorter, at about 354 days.

It is about which month is the primary month of the Jewish calendar. Rabbi Eliezer says that the future Messianic redemption will occur in Tishrei, while Rabbi Yehoshua says it will occur during ...

The dates for Passover are based on the Hebrew calendar. It always falls on the 15th day of the month of Nissan, which is the first full moon after the spring equinox.

The Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar, also based on lunar months, that begins with the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Here's when Easter and Passover are this year and why they fall "late" in ...

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.

The holiday occurs during the month of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar, usually in March or April. It's observed with formally structured seders (festive, ritualized meals) among families, friends ...

In the Gregorian calendar, it is always observed on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25. "Over a 500-year period (from 1600 to 2099 AD), Easter will most often be celebrated on either March 31 ...

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 ...

Google Calendar change: Black History Month, Pride Month, public holidays no longer appear Contact IndyStar reporter Cheryl V. Jackson at [email protected] or 317-444-6264.

JTA — Google Calendar has removed International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Jewish American Heritage Month from its default display in the United States, part of a broader removal of cultural ...