Of all the 39 acts of work which are prohibited on Shabbat, why does The Torah single out the act of lighting fire? As we know, in the Jewish calendar, the night belongs to the next day. By burning th ...

Dosick was working at his dining room table in Carlsbad when he suffered the heart attack about 9 p.m. Friday.

Catholic leaders criticize the timing of Shelton's special election early voting, citing conflicts with Passover and Holy ...

In the spirit of Passover spiritual cleansing which we are commencing, here is a list of fifty-two areas of life which perhaps could use some ongoing scrubbing and scouring.

The tenth and eleventh weekly Torah readings from Exodus, Vayakkel (35:1-38:20) and Pekekudei (38:21-40:38) deal with the construction of the Tabernacle during Moses’s time. Many readers think the ...

The First Day of Spring is here and the spring holidays for 2025 are near: Lent, Easter, Good Friday, and Passover dates.

Our days in Shushan have ended for this year, yet there is a way of staying here a bit longer because Purim is in the month of Adar. Our rabbis stated: “ Mi-shenikhnas Adar marbim b’simcha; when Adar ...

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

It is also known as Black Friday, Holy Friday, Great Friday, Good Friday of the Passion of the Lord, Great and Holy Friday. Good Friday always occurs two days before Easter Sunday. It is the day ...

Holy water is also removed from the fonts in ... The following morning, which was still the same day by Jewish reckoning, the Crucifixion significantly took place just as the Passover lambs ...

So just who was this Nazi Leader of the Palestinian “Resistance”? Husayni first rose to power offering compliance with the British Mandate. In an apparent pattern of deceit, he quickly emerged as a ...