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

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

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

The festival of Chanukah commemorates the Maccabees’ victory over the Syrian tyrant Antiochus IV, who had conquered Jerusalem ...

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

The strikes come as Israelis endure continued rocket attacks from the Houthi militia in Yemen even as attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip have diminished.

This too was the approach of the Maccabees. They saw a need and it was they who responded. They organized the defenses. They crafted battle plans. They defeated the mighty Greeks and restored the ...

Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish holiday that begins on the 25th day of the month of Kislev. This year, the start coincides ...

It mirrors how many American Jews feel these days, more than a year after the Hamas attack of Oct. 7 and amid the ongoing war ...

They also challenge us to confront the realities of our time: a world divided by wealth, plagued by war, and in desperate ... face of overwhelming odds. The Maccabees’ victory over the Seleucid ...

He ordered the Torah defiled with the blood of pigs and commanded “that the lamp, which they call undying and which burns continually in the temple, should be extinguished.” At the climax of the ...