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20 hours ago · Hebrew calendar. Jewish calendar, showing Adar II between 1927 and 1948. 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.
3 days ago · Jewish History. Chosen People (1313 BCE) Sivan 2 is marked on the Jewish calendar as Yom HaMeyuchas ("Day of Distinction"); it was on this day that G-d told Moses -- when Moses ascended Mount Sinai for the first time -- to tell the people of Israel: "You shall be My chosen treasure from among all the nations, for all the earth is Mine.
1 day ago · Use this powerful tool to look up any regular / Gregorian calendar date and convert it to its corresponding Jewish date, or vice versa. Today's Hebrew date is: Monday, Sivan 4, 5784 - June 10, 2024.
1 day ago · Hebcal makes calendars of Jewish holidays. Convert Hebrew and Gregorian dates, get Shabbat candle-lighting times, Torah readings for Diaspora + Israel, Yahrzeit dates and more.
5 days ago · Learn about special dates on the Chabad calendar. Kislev 19, Shevat 10, Elul 18 and more. More... This day marks the “birth” of Chassidism, when the long-hidden secrets of Judaism emerged from the womb of mysticism to illuminate and transform the totality of Jewish life.
2 days ago · Although the object of dispute during the Crusades, the region, then generally known as Palestine, remained under the sway of successive Islamic dynasties until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, when it was placed under British mandate from the League of Nations.
5 days ago · From Europe to America to the Middle East, North Africa and other non-European Jewish settlement areas, the Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture covers the recent history of the Jews from 1750 until the 1950s.
