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

Jewish families commemorated Lag B'Omer, which marks the end of an ancient plague and heeds Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai's call ...

How Did the Egyptian Calendar Contribute to the Modern Calendar?   While some earlier civilizations had created calendars, the Egyptian calendar contributed heavily to the modern calendar. The ...

(History's first superpower sprang from ancient Iran.) Nearly 50 years later ... Jewish festivals are celebrated according to the Jewish calendar, which is based on the lunar cycle but ...

Passover is a Jewish holiday during the month of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. It usually falls ... the liberation of Israelites from ancient Egyptian slavery. It begins with a traditional seder ...

It was Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, and the ensuing war lasted for 19 days. On hearing the news, Cohen felt a sudden calling, describing in his diary the appeal of the ...

A 1,600-year-old Jewish bath, also known as a mikveh ... Pictures released by officials show ancient stairs leading down to what was once used as a ritual bath. The steps show "notable traces ...

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(CNN) — The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical region of Israel and the surrounding area. The “mikveh ...

Purim, or the Feast of Lots, is a Biblical Jewish festival known ... change on the Gregorian (solar) calendar each year. The name “Purim” means “lots” in ancient Persian, referring to ...