The first Passover is an event that occurred about 3,500 years ago. It marks the beginning of the Jewish people as a free people. The first commandment given to the Jewish people was to construct ...

In colonial India, within a shared Islamicate culinary climate, Jewish and Muslim ritual stews developed side by side.

The Jewish celebration of Hanukkah or Chanukah celebrates the re-dedication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. In the second century B.C., Jews had revolted against their Greek-Syrian oppressors.

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published Feb. 29, 2016. This year is Leap Year in both the secular Gregorian calendar — the one most of the world goes by — and in the Hebrew calendar.

The first commandment given to the Jewish people was to construct their own calendar. What resulted was one of the most precise calendars ever produced. What makes the Hebrew calendar one the most ...