Tammuz was a Mesopotamian fertility god, Adar may have meant gloomy and several familiar month names came from Akkadian after the Babylonian exile; rabbis later found distinctly Jewish meanings for th ...

The Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are quickly approaching. Here's when each holiday starts and ends.

Image create at Canva.com \The Shofar is meant to awaken the spirit in preparation for the high holidays. The instrument is blown every morning during the month of Elul. We are now in the month of ...

The two-day holiday known as Rosh Hashanah kicks off the beginning of the Jewish "High Holidays," a ten-day period of repentance and reflection that culminates with Yom Kippur, also known as the Day ...