Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

Friends and family will come together to celebrate, share gifts and eat traditional foods as the eight-day Jewish festival of ...

Based on the Greco-Roman model of celebrating a military triumph, Hanukkah was instituted in 164 B.C. to celebrate the ...

Hope is thin in Israel as activists and citizens call for justice and prepare for next year’s contentious elections ...

Hanukkah is the only Jewish holiday without a biblical book. But all Jews — not only New York literati and Hollywood ...

What do we make of Christmas as it comes careening towards us? Some of us won’t have a Christian background and will ...

Never mind that the Romans established Syria Palaestina in the year 135 C.E. as a new, name for Judaea, meant to erase its connection to the Jews and use a name referring to the ancient, long-extinct ...

In Fred Lockley’s, “Conversations With Pioneer Men,” he interviewed Robert Booth. When Booth was a young boy, one time his mother and father were completely ...

While critics sometimes identify Christmas as promoting the prevalence in America today of what one might refer to as Hanukkah kitsch, this assessment misses the social and theological significance of ...

Many people grow up hearing Christmas classics explained as absolute facts, and the stories stay untouched for years. A ...

The Bible is already the most translated book ever—it is available in full in more than 750 languages—but they would like to ...