Plans for a major visitor center at the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem promise education and security, but opponents say ...

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

A pilgrim who visited the Second Temple in Jerusalem may have carved their memories into a limestone block for another ...

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 ...

The cinematographer shares how he shot Mona Fastvold's ambitious period musical on a limited production schedule.

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

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 ...

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

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

Zionists draw on the military imagery of Hanukkah, while others look to the synagogue prayers that focus on the miracle of ...

Christian, Islamic, and secular/atheistic perspectives and politics have shaped recent world history more than any other ...