“I always imagined God sitting shiva for the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust and getting up from shiva,” the period of Jewish mourning “when the last survivor left this worl ...

Residents of the 210-unit Gurwin Jewish-Fay J. Lindner Residences in Commack offer life advice to the next generation.

But Jewish religious authorities have always recognized ... If Jews were to commemorate each and every national tragedy on its anniversary, the calendar ... While Biden’s scandalous pardons ...

A: The Jewish custom is to use the Hebrew calendar, which expresses faith in God, the Creator of the world, and its months are those by which the holidays are determined. In modern times ...

The dates of the holiday are based on Hebrew month of Kislev, which usually coincides with November-December in the Gregorian calendar. This year, Hanukkah will be celebrated from Dec. 25 ...

It comes from reaching out." Why is Hanukkah so late this year? The simple answer is that the Jewish calendar is based on lunar cycles, and is not in sync with the Gregorian calendar which sets ...

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is a Jewish holiday celebrating the defeat of the Syrian Greeks who oppressed the religious freedom of Judaism and the rededication of the Second Temple in ...