The sacrifice of fasting allows Muslims to approach Allah. In a similar way, in Tishrei, the first month of the Jewish calendar - approximately in the month of September of the Gregorian year - we.

Many people think that the calendar we use today stems from ancient Rome. While the current version, known as the Gregorian calendar, is rooted in ancient Rome, the basics were already developed and ...

The Dalai Lama announces succession plans ahead of 90th birthday, hinting the next Tibetan Buddhist leader should be chosen ...

In Dubai, public holidays such as the Islamic New Year move around the calendar and start on a different day every year. The upcoming holiday is one of four public holidays in the UAE that rely on the ...

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape from destruction recorded in the Book of Esther. Haman, an early Hitler in ...

The Dalai Lama has announced that he intends to reincarnate, paving the way for a successor to take on a mantle stretching back 500 years after his death. But as ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday intensified its battle with Harvard University, formally finding the school tolerated antisemitism — a step that could ...

It comes as several local Jewish community members are on a trip in Tel Aviv, and are now spending the night in a bomb shelter. "They were looking forward to being at Tel Aviv Pride today and it ...

The Hebrew calendar used a similar system until sometime in between the 8th and 10th century CE when Jewish scholars adopted a mathematically-based method for determining when the months began.

Date Converter Arabic to English - (Gregorian to Hijri) In today’s interconnected world, the ability to convert dates between different calendars is more than a convenience—it’s a necessity for ...

Described as “God’s prophetic timepiece,” by Rabbi Jason Sobel, he notes that Jerusalem is more than a political epicenter.