He said Chabad was organizing about 15,000 public ... The simple answer is that the Jewish calendar is based on lunar cycles, and is not in sync with the Gregorian calendar which sets Christmas ...

(JNS) After 298 Jewish men and women had sat down, randomly paired together in a speed dating event in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., the dating coach Manya Lazaroff called out a ...

The Algemeiner unveiled its 11th annual J100 list of the "top 100 people positively influencing Jewish life" at a gala at ...

This year, the first night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah fell on the same day as Christmas for the first time since 2005. Christmas and Hanukkah both always fall on the 25th, but of two ...

In 2025, the holiday will begin on Dec. 14, according to Chabad.com. The reason for these different dates is that the Hebrew calendar and all Jewish holidays are determined by the moon’s phases ...

Hirshy Minkowicz is the rabbi of Chabad of North Fulton. “Hanukkah is unique in the Jewish calendar, in that it has a specific emphasis on taking the story and the message of Hanukkah to the ...