The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus and Gramercy Books will host a National Poetry Month program featuring the poetry troupe Elixir of Voice. Elixir of Voice is composed of four ...

According to the Jewish Virtual Library, Passover begins on the 15th day of the Jewish month of Nissan. It commemorates the departure from Egypt after 44 years of slavery, as told in the biblical ...

Leviticus 5:17 I’m pleased to have the opportunity to get back to my sins and guilt, what with Yom Kippur a mere six-and-a-half months away, it’s never too soon. Usually, we don’t begin the ...

Dec. 17, 2024 Defense Minister Israel Katz has announced that Druze residents in Syria will be allowed to enter Israel to work this month. Work permits will be issued effective March 16.

“Trump’s claim is that this is for me, as a Jewish student, but I don’t think it’s protecting me or anyone else,” said one second-year student. Hardly a day of Yakira Galler’s college ...

They hate surprises. Passover people feel inspired by looking at the calendar and seeing ways they can better their soul through the reliability of the Jewish months and holidays. These are people ...

It was the first time Israel has had missile fire in nearly six months and another sign that the Israel-Hamas war has resumed. Hamas fired three rockets from the Gaza Strip at the Tel Aviv area ...

It accused the university of failing to protect Jewish students and promoting “divisive ideologies over free inquiry.” Harvard had been bracing for the development. In recent months ...

During Covid-19, Israel’s chief Ashkenazic rabbi, David Lau, declared a half-day fast to be observed the day before the Jewish month of Nissan. Covid-19, in a sense, was a replay of earlier ...

All over the world, Purim is celebrated on the 14th of the Jewish month of Adar. However, cities surrounded by a wall at the time of Esther (5th century BCE) mark the holiday a day later.