Jewish calendar
Is There Any Reason the Last Digit of the Jewish Year and Last Digit of the Civil Year Are the Same?
From now until next September 6, we will be living in 5781 and 2021. Is that an accident, or is a deeper synchronicity at work?
Jan. 13 2021 12:01AM
A fictional peddler reflects on the imponderability of anti-Semitism.
Sholem Aleichem
Sept. 21 2020 12:01AM
Why did Rabbi Akiva’s students die?
Basil Herring
April 27 2020 12:01AM
Why the words for both are so similar in so many languages, and why Hebrew has turned out to be the rare exception.
Sept. 18 2019 12:01AM
Convenient advertising.
Jenna Weissman Joselit
March 29 2019 12:01AM
From Alaska to Jerusalem.
Sept. 7 2018 12:01AM
A sectarian calendar that synchronizes with the days of the week.
Daniel Eisenbud
Jan. 22 2018 12:01AM
That’s Mr. Ḥeshvan to you.
Nov. 2 2016 12:01AM
The method, developed by the Babylonians and kept alive by medieval Jews, is known in Hebrew as the “secret of impregnation.”
Sept. 28 2016 12:01AM