Israel is glowing this Hanukkah with shows, tours, theater, films, and family-friendly events across the country.

Dr. Norman Bloom unveils a clear path to reading Hebrew as it was intended to be spoken, after decades of study.

A researcher has solved one of the longstanding riddles of the Dead Sea Scrolls by deciphering a hidden script within the ...

However, the Second Book of the Maccabees (c. 124 BCE), written in Egypt, notes that Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days ...

A scholar claims to have deciphered Cryptic B, a mysterious alphabet in the Dead Sea Scrolls long thought impossible to read.

Here's what you need to know about playing this festive Hanukkah activity. A dreidel is a spinning top with four sides, each ...

This year, Hanukkah begins at sundown on Sunday, December 14, 2025 and ends with nightfall on Monday, December 22, 2025.

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight ...

Starting next fall, the Berlin-based press will launch a U.S. copublishing program with New Vessel, Steerforth, and Deep Vellum with a focus on fiction and nonfiction translated from Hebrew, as well ...

Born in Moscow in 1993, Alexander Listengort graduated from the Moscow State Linguistic University, where he studied ...

With the Hanukah miracle revolving around oil, it is customary to celebrate the holiday by eating foods fried in oil.

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ...