The Jewish holiday Lag BaOmer falls in May 2025, and it's one of the most festive days in the Hebrew calendar. If you see a ...

Jewish families in Lancaster honor Shavuot with a Torah reading, dairy buffet and reflection on timeless values rooted in the ...

This calendar included the dates of Sabbaths, holidays, and fast days, providing a Hebrew date for every day of the war.….The Jewish underground heard about this calendar and copied it ...

A "Christmukkah" as rare as this one occurs due to the Hebrew calendar not aligning with the Gregorian calendar, causing the start of the Hanukkah holiday to move dates annually. The holidays have ...

A new function integrates the Gregorian and Jewish lunisolar calendars. Tired of always forgetting whether the Hebrew month right now is Iyar or Nisan? Dying to know if your birthday this year ...

The reason the two don't always sync—and sometime coincidentally do—is based on the two different calendars. The Jewish calendar is based on the lunar cycle. The civil calendar in use around ...

In the secular calendar, a new month begins in the middle of the moon’s cycle. In the Jewish calendar, a new month begins with the new moon. The Hebrew word for month is chodesh which also ...

That's because the date is based on the lunar calendar. Easter comes on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. The Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar ...