Portland students and staff could have two new days off from school next year: the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur in October and the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr in March. The Portland school board has been ...

As Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest Senate speech and made clear he was going for 25 hours, Jewish social ...

Local Jewish leaders met with members of the NYPD, FDNY, the Department of Sanitation and others at the 121st Precinct stationhouse in Graniteville on Tuesday to discuss security concerns ahead of the ...

Lel HaSeder is the centerpiece of the Pesach celebration, where virtually every Jewish family gathers around their holiday ...

Mana Abdi, D-Lewiston, was made to make the two Muslim Eid holidays state holidays. The U.S. and Maine have freedom of religion laws and for them to say that they “don’t mind having Muslims live here” ...

Despite the deliverance from slavery in Egypt, the meal concludes with the phrase, also said at the end of another observation known as Yom Kippur, “Next year in Jerusalem.” In a meal that blends past ...

The conversations were playing out in the midst of the fall Jewish holiday season. The initial meeting took place days before Yom Kippur, and soon afterward, Rabbi Yonah Gross, a senior official at ...

Pacific, excluding Greater China, delivered growth of about 12% in revenue per available room. Read more at straitstimes.com.

We are at a point where we are realizing it’s not being used and starting to think about what might be next for it' ...

Purim begins on the evening of March 13, 2025, and concludes at sundown on March 14, 2025.

The Jewish holiday of Purim, celebrated March 13-14, is considered holier than Yom Kippur, yet it’s a story of survival where ...