Posts Tagged: Jewish calendar
The Jewish Calendar: Sanctifying Time in a Fractured World
Time doesn’t always move the way we expect it to. Sometimes it blurs -- with days stretching endlessly, their differences erased. Sometimes, everything happens at...
‘Most Complicated Watch Ever Made’ Includes Hebrew Calendar With Date of Yom Kippur
Uber-luxury Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin recently unveiled a new pocket watch -- dubbed "the most complicated watch ever made" -- that includes a Hebrew calendar. The...
The Intricacies of the Hebrew Calendar Leap Year
JNS.org - No, it isn't nearly as rare as "Thanksgivukkah," the once-in-75,000-years overlap of the first day Hanukkah and Thanksgiving Day that took the...
Jewish and Chinese Calendars Are More Similar Than You Think
The Gregorian calendar - the most commonly used calendar on earth today - is solar. It is based on the time it takes the earth...
Ancient Calendar Offers Glimpse of Biblical Times
JNS.org - Ever wonder how the people in biblical times arranged their schedules? The answer may lie with a 4,000-year-old silt tablet recently discovered...
Israel PM Netanyahu Stresses ‘Unity’ Ahead of 9th of Av; Meteorologist Braces for Traditional Choppy Seas
The "Three Weeks" of traditional Jewish mourning to commemorate the destruction of the historic First and Second Jewish Temples in Jerusalem, from 17th Tammuz to 9th...
Little Moons
Veteran or novice, whom do you choose? Say you are the coach of a sports team and you have accomplished stars but they may be...
Genesis: Ideological Calendars and the Land of Israel
Everyone is conditioned culturally to think in specific ways and to adopt specific timelines. Christians think in terms of Before Christ and After Christ. Never mind...
The Rabbi and the Rhodes Scholar: How An Accidental Meeting Between Cory Booker and Me Led to Jewish Renewal
Twenty years ago this Monday, corresponding to the Jewish festival of Simchat Torah, a young African-American Rhodes scholar walked into a Chabad Jewish student center in...
Jewish Table Manners
After fasting, the Jewish calendar quickly turns to feasting. And in true Jewish math, the ratio is one day of fasting for eight days of...
Israel Means Business on Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President, had quite the week when he visited New York to address, as he has done in past years, the United...
Elul: The Month of Return
During the Hebrew month of Elul, we blow the shofar every morning in synagogue. This ritual coheres with a general principle of Jewish law, namely...
Drowning in ‘Stuff’
Last week marked the cycle of the completion of the Talmud, studied one page a day for seven years. Tens of thousands of Jews across...
