Music has power. Sometimes music is the power behind big movements. OK, saying it’s the power behind movements might be too exaggerated, but it definitely accompanies and empowers movements and soci ...

Many people I encounter here in Victoria have no familiarity at all with basic Jewish vocabulary, so I thought I would use this opportunity as a very basic primer.

Because Judaism uses a modified lunar calendar, rather than the familiar solar calendar, the secular dates of Hanukkah vary from year to year.

Plus, Sports Illustrated names National Women’s Soccer League commissioner Jessica Berman its 2024 Innovator of the Year.

All the news of Jewish interest was reported without prejudice providing opposite views on the same subject on the same page. I wish the enthusiastic new publishers success in their new ventures, ...

The American Jewish singer songwriter Peter Yarrow, who died Tuesday at age 86, exemplified the paradoxes of assimilating in the world of pop music. Although he was never bar mitzvahed, following a ...

This September he formed the Tucson Maccabees soccer club, choosing a name that generations of Jewish athletes have played under in soccer and a variety of sports. Playing its first season this fall, ...

In the original Chanukah, the Maccabees had driven the Syrian Greeks ... Herod Philip II, his son, who like his father was not Jewish in any way, the son of Cleopatra of Jerusalem whom Herod ...

History of Hanukkah The background to Hanukkah lies in the second century BC when a Greek army led by King Antiochus IV Epiphanes (who ruled 175 to 164 BC) marched into Jerusalem (2 Maccabees 5:11–14) ...

According to Jewish tradition, Hanukkah commemorates the miracle of oil that burned for eight days after the Maccabees defeated the Greeks. The menorah is a symbol of the temple lampstand.

In addition, the Maccabees’ campaign against the Seleucid ... the IDF is pitted against virtually the entire world united against the Jewish State. Not only has it been defending its people ...