which is based on the solar year of 365 1/4 days (plus a few odd minutes), the Hebrew calendar retains its ancient lunar ...

Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish holiday that’s observed in late fall or early winter. Hanukkah, with its own set of ...

Jewish holidays take place in the unique context of the Jewish calendar, which, though mainly lunar, is in fact a hybrid using aspects of both the solar and lunar calendars. In addition to the ...

The new moon occurs on Nov. 1, and three days later the moon will make a close pass to Venus in the evening sky.

Hanukkah begins on the 25th of the Hebrew lunar month of Kislev every year, but the date in the Gregorian calendar varies. The lunar calendar is shorter than the solar one, so an extra month is ...

But with the holiday, which is determined by the Hebrew lunar calendar, occurring two weeks earlier, “it was really touch and go,” Kaminetsky said. The main complication was in obtaining the ...