As an Israeli Jew,I am not one to celebrate the “Civil New Year,” also known in Israel as “Sylvester.” I do not observe it not because “Sylvester “is named after a fourth-century pope and a saint, who ...

Thanks to the widely adopted Gregorian calendar, most people have marked the new year on Jan. 1 for centuries. But with so ...

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 ...

Following the addition of the Persian calendar early this year, Google Calendar today gained support for the Hebrew calendar. As a result, you can now display Hebrew dates alongside Gregorian ones: To ...

The first Passover is an event that occurred about 3,500 years ago. It marks the beginning of the Jewish people as a free people. The first commandment given to the Jewish people was to construct ...

In 2024, Christmas and Hanukkah will fall on the same day - December 25 - for the first time since 2005. Christmas, which is celebrated on December 25, and Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, ...

Much of the world follows the Gregorian calendar, named after Pope Gregory XIII, who put the finishing touches on a Roman system that integrated ideas from other cultures.

There are several ways to welcome the New Year which has a different meaning to those who follow the Gregorian, Hebrew or Chinese Zodiac calendars.

11:04, Thu, Sep 17, 2020 Updated: 11:05, Thu, Sep 17, 2020 Rosh Hashanah - the Jewish New Year - will be celebrated by Jews across the globe from Friday, September 18 until nightfall on Sunday, ...

The first commandment given to the Jewish people was to construct their own calendar. What resulted was one of the most precise calendars ever produced. What makes the Hebrew calendar one the most ...