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Our holy parshanim (commentators) sweeten our festival month of Tishrei, with many drashot, as to the ‘messages’ to be adduced from there being two parshiot read on Shemini Atzeret: first, the ...

It is a common knowledge that the current twelve-month calendar -- the Gregorian calendar, traces its origin to Pagan Rome .

“In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a holy convocation; do not do any kind of ordinary work; it is a day of blowing the shofar for you” (Numbers 29:1). Those are the ...

3. According to Leviticus 23:26-32: “The Lord said to Moses, that the tenth day of this seventh month [Tishrei] is the Day of Atonement…. Do not do any work on that day…. This is a lasting ordinance ...

Israel’s government cabinet unanimously approved the establishment of an annual day of remembrance to mark the October 7 massacre by some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists who left at least 1,200 people dead ...

When is the “real” Jewish New Year? As temperatures begin to drop and the Hebrew lunar month of Elūl comes to its end, Rosh Ha-Shanah, the Jewish New Year festival, is upon us. But is Rosh Ha-Shanah, ...

The month of Tishrei, during which Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot all take place, might be the most well-known month of the Jewish year. The month immediately following it, Cheshvan, might be ...

MINNESOTA, USA — As we approach the sacred season of religious holidays for the Jewish community, you might hear or see people greeting one another by saying "L'shanah tovah," or "good year" to ...