A Hanukkah menorah, sometimes known as a Hanukkiah, is a candelabrum that can support a total of nine candles and is used ...

There was a major shift in the world of Torah scholarship 2,200 years ago. A new light was born in response to the Greeks' ...

When the Maccabees went to relight the temple’s ... Start the day with a summary of the day’s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. Sign up for our Morning Edition ...

The short answer is no, but certain aspects of Hanukkah bring Christmas to mind. What are these aspects? Both occasionally ...

We are here today, in fact, the entire western world from the Americas to Europe, to Africa and the Mideast and even far east Asia, thanks to the vision and heroism of the Maccabee warriors of old ...

I’ve often described the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces as “modern-day Maccabees,” invoking the larger-than-life image of the Chanukah superheroes as a way to compliment today’s ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. 2 Macc is not a sequel to 1 Macc. In fact, 2 Macc tells many of the same stories from a slightly different perspective than 1 Macc.

While Hanukkah commemorates the miracle of oil that lasted for eight days, it also celebrates the miraculous victory of a small rag-tag group of Jews, known as the Maccabees, over a much more ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — ChatGPT-maker OpenAI laid out plans on Friday for a new corporate structure shifting away from control by a nonprofit an issue of contention for the artificial intelligence ...

The eight-day holiday commemorates the Maccabees’ liberation and rededication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem. When it comes to religion, we’re probably average Americans: Some go to church or ...