As spring approaches so does Ash Wednesday, Lent and Easter Sunday. Here's when all three happen and where you can find ...

Known as the Festival of Lights, the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah celebrates the rise of the Jewish people against Greek-Syrian oppressors more than 2,000 years ago. As the island's Jewish ...

The menorah is a symbol of when the Jewish people retook the temple of ... “But it is not a religious holiday. It’s a cultural holiday celebrated by many religions. It’s all-welcoming ...

(photo credit: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) While not regarded as one of the major Jewish holidays ... the Jewish community to incorporate our own symbols and rituals into the cultural zeitgeist ...

A: The Jewish custom is to use the Hebrew calendar ... The same applies to other distinctive holiday symbols used by various religions, such as a Santa Claus figurine. However, since the Christmas ...

But the presence (or lack thereof) of Jewish symbols in city holiday displays is a much older issue, one that has been litigated before the U.S. Supreme Court. A 1989 case found that the public ...

But a new Jewish holiday in development means to ... Some ideas, like the shofar as the holiday’s symbol and bagels as its food, were widely recommended. But one group actively decided against ...

The major Jewish holiday happens during the month of Nisan ... “is the key and most well-known symbol of Passover,” Berger ...

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is a Jewish holiday celebrating the defeat of the Syrian Greeks who oppressed the religious freedom of Judaism and the rededication of the Second Temple in ...