The 10-day Jewish High Holy Days ends with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, after nightfall on Saturday, Oct. 12. The big ...

High Holy Days: A term often used to describe the holidays falling during the Hebrew month of Tishrei (often overlapping with September and October), the High Holy Days/Holidays include Rosh Hashanah, ...

Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, is set to begin this week, and it comes a little later than last year's holiday. The holiday, which also can be spelled Rosh Hashanah, marks the beginning of the ...

Passover is one of the two most important Jewish Holy Days or festivals in the entire year. On the one hand, coming in the spring it celebrates harvest. On the other hand, it commemorates one of ...

Day follows day and year follows year from there to here…. The Jewish calendar is cyclical. Circular. The whole purpose of the calendar is to mark the Jewish Holy Days, beginning with Rosh ...

Ed Karrens: It was the afternoon of October the 6th, the Jewish Holy Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. Jews throughout the world were observing this sacred day of religious commitment; but in Israel ...

Israel has announced it is stopping the entry of all goods and supplies, including humanitarian aid, into Gaza. The move ...

Community is vital in Jewish ritual and tradition, and the High Holidays are no exception, a Judaic studies scholar writes. Shavuot, which was originally an ancient pilgrimage festival ...

Passover is one of the two most important Jewish Holy Days or festivals in the entire year. On the one hand, coming in the spring it celebrates harvest. On the other hand, it commemorates one of ...