This Chanukah I join Jews around the world in celebrating Israel’s recent military victories, that parallel the holiday’s ...

Let us remember the Maccabees' heroism and of our incredible IDF soldiers, but also the quiet heroism of Rabbi Mordechai ...

With Hanukkah this year coming at the same time as Christmas, it is a wonderful reminder for us all—Christians and Jews— that ...

“At the time of the Maccabees’ war against the rule of Greece in the Land, that is how most of the Jews regarded Yehuda. At the beginning of the rebellion, only a handful followed hi ...

Handing out gelt coins is a famous Hanukkah tradition. We explore where this holiday practice comes from and how real coins ...

Hanukkah is, perhaps, the easiest Jewish holiday to celebrate. There are no restrictions on what one may or may not do—no ...

Pardoned by Jimmy Carter, Yarrow did not always meet the same ethical standard set by the music of his group Peter, Paul and ...

The Maccabees enabled the Jews of Israel to establish the Second Jewish Commonwealth around 160 BCE. But on the other hand, Judah’s victory devolved into a Jewish civil war and within 100 ...

The best place to examine Jewish holiness would be to look at the path blazed by Avraham, the first Jew and founding father ...

King Antiochus IV Epiphanes imposed harsh measures to enforce Hellenization, banning Jewish practices such as circumcision, ...