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 means ...

This week, two holidays are being celebrated across the country, as the first night of Hanukkah falls on the same day as ...

Hanukkah, Judaism's eight-day Festival of Lights, begins at sunset this year on Christmas Day. This last happened in 2005 and has only happened 10 times since we started using the Gregorian calendar ...

Hanukkah is nearly upon us. The Jewish holiday runs for a little over a week and usually falls in late November or mid-December. This is what you should know. Hanukkah begins at nightfall on Thursday, ...