Chanukah and Hanukkah refer to the same holiday, and both are correct spellings for the Jewish Festival of Lights. While the ...

During the tense years before the Yom Kippur War, Israel’s Mossad received intelligence from an unexpected source inside Egypt’s presidential circle. Ashraf Marwan, son-in-law of President Gamal Abdel ...

Not long ago, I was talking with another rabbi, and we got onto an interesting question: Which Jewish holidays are the most ...

As a lead-up to the High Holidays, and through the Hebrew month of Elul, the CFLK has offered yearly programming blending ...

Tree of Life congregants will perform in Calvary's Christmas pageant, followed by a Festival of Lights celebration ...

A Harvard visiting law professor from Brazil who told police he was shooting at rats when he fired a pellet gun near a ...

Immigration authorities arrested Carlos Portugal Gouvea, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, on Wednesday after his J ...

Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish faith, is being celebrated on Wednesday, Oct. 1. Yom Kippur is the day of atonement following the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. It involves followers of the ...

Beginning at sunset today, Jews celebrate Yom Kippur, the holiest day of their year. Many Jews commonly spend the day in prayer in their synagogue. According to Leviticus 16:29 in the Bible, using the ...

WASHINGTON — Yom Kippur is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar and also one of the most somber commemorations of the year. It marks the end of the "Days of Awe," a 10-day period that begins on Rosh ...