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The Hebrew calendar ( Hebrew: הַלּוּחַ הָעִבְרִי, romanized : HalLûaḥ HāʿIḇrî ), also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance and as an official calendar of Israel. It determines the dates of Jewish holidays and other rituals, such as yahrzeits and the schedule of ...
jewishcurrents .org. ISSN. 0021-6399. Jewish Currents is an American progressive Jewish quarterly magazine and news site whose content reflects the politics of the Jewish left. It features independent journalism, breaking news, political commentary, analysis, and a "countercultural" approach to Jewish arts and literature.
Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust. United States, Sunday before Yom Hashoah to following Sunday. 22 Nisan (1-day communities) / 23 Nisan (2-day communities) April 4, 2021 / April 5, 2021. Mimouna. Public holiday in Israel. 16 Nisan - 5 Sivan. Sunset, 28 March – nightfall, 16 May 2021. Counting the Omer.
1. 1. Washington, D.C. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting: At about 12:50 pm on June 10, 2009, 88-year-old white supremacist James Wenneker von Brunn entered the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., with a rifle and fatally shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns.
World Jewish population around 7.7 million, 90% in Europe, mostly Eastern Europe; around 3.5 million in the former Polish provinces. 1881–1884, 1903–1906, 1918–1920. Three major waves of pogroms kill tens of thousands of Jews in Russia and Ukraine. More than two million Russian Jews emigrate in the period 1881–1920.
It has sections containing general news items and Israeli news, as well as religious news, and news tailored around Jewish life cycle events and the Jewish calendar. Features relevant to Jewish observance, include articles about Torah and Jewish law ( halakha ), kosher recipes, and a streaming radio feature.
Second century. 115–117. Thousands of Jews are killed during civil unrest in Egypt, Cyprus, and Cyrenaica, as recounted by Cassius Dio. 119. Roman Emperor Hadrian bans circumcision, making Judaism de facto illegal. 132–135. Crushing of the Bar Kokhba revolt. According to Cassius Dio 580,000 Jews are killed.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Israel–Hamas war. Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis. The Israel Defense Forces recover the bodies of six hostages, including Alex Dancyg, from the Khan Younis area, who were kidnapped by Hamas in the initial October 7, 2023 attack. (Reuters) Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip.