The civil calendar in use around the world, also known as the Gregorian calendar, is solar based. Hanukkah always starts on the 25 th day of the Jewish month of Kislev.

The Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar, also based on lunar months, that begins with the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Here's when Easter and Passover are this year and why they fall "late" in ...

Hanukkah is nearly upon us. The Jewish holiday runs for a little over a week and usually falls in late November or mid-December. This is what you should know. Hanukkah begins at nightfall on ...

Passover began on April 12 and will continue through the upcoming weekend. Passover is a Jewish holiday during the month of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. It usually falls on a day in March or ...

Considered the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur is the culmination of a 10-day period of repentance and reflection, which began last week with the start of Rosh Hashanah. Stream NBC ...

Yom Kippur is part of the Jewish high holy days, but you shouldn't tell someone "Happy Yom Kippur." Here's what you need to know about the somber commemoration.

The holiday technically spans two calendar days, because the Jewish calendar is lunar. Days are marked sunset to sunset. This year, it begins at sundown on October 4 and continues until the ...