Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent that leads up to Good Friday and Easter. What to know about the day.

Although Rabbi Jacobs’ article alludes to numerous other examples of scientific knowledge, let me conclude by examining a broader area which might be termed practical or applied astronomy.

On January 31st, 1961, a debate between Israel’s Ambassador to Canada, Yaakov Herzog, and the historian Arnold Toynbee, took ...

After closing its doors due to the Palisades Fire, the Skirball Cultural Center is scheduled to reopen Sunday with a free ...

Professor Elizabeth Polczer, a biblical scholar at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, believes the Bible is the result of ...

The commandment of sanctifying the month is not merely a technical instruction for those who establish the calendar on how ...

After closing its doors due to the Palisades Fire, the Skirball Cultural Center is scheduled to reopen Sunday with a free ...

A biblical scholar has claimed that the Bible was written by more than 40 different people, including the famous books of ...

Unlike other holidays, the date that Easter Sunday falls on changes year to year and with it the dates of Ash Wednesday, Lent and associated holidays such as Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday. Here's a ...

Why is the dead of winter a good time to start a new year, anyway? In the medieval era, much of Europe thought March 25th was the right date; the Jewish calendar still begins in the fall. And then ...

I debated Abdullah al Andalusi from the Muslim Debate Initiative at Manchester University (UK) on the subject of “Is Anti ...