Survey found sharp divisions among Israel’s Jewish public over celebrating the civil New Year, with most religious Israelis ...

The comparison of New Year practices in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam demonstrates how religious traditions maintain ...

Hanukkah has already begun, and it will end just before Christmas. Here's what to know about the Jewish holiday ...

TOPSHOT - Valentyna (C), the mother of 10-year-old Matilda, who was killed in the December 14 Bondi Beach shooting attack, ...

The menorah in Liberty Station. (Photo courtesy of Liberty Station. Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish festival of lights, begins at sundown on Sunday, Dec. 14, with the lighting of the first candle. The ...

Come mid-December, Laury and Terry Bagen will join with dozens of family members for an evolving tradition they’ve celebrated their entire lives. For eight days, they’ll light an additional candle ...

A Scottish musician living in Australia has told how people "stampeded" out of an open-air cinema after hearing gunshots from the attack on a Hannukah event. Kian Bentley, 22, said everything "became ...

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

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

Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish festival of lights, begins at sundown on Sunday, Dec. 14, with the lighting of the first candle. The holiday commemorates the re-dedication of the historic temple in ...

MY PRIEST THE OTHER SUNDAY preached about Advent—no surprises there—and the tension between Advent’s waiting-period approach to Christmas, and America’s no-holds-barred commercialized celebration.

This is a Jewish perspective of the New Year carried by The Times of Israel on Dec. 31 written by David Ramati a war veteran ...