Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights, is an eight-day Jewish festival commemorating the victory of the Maccabees, a ...

Rabbi Abraham Unger, executive director of New Synagogue Palm Beach, said the holiday recognizes the survival of the Jewish ...

On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah.

Zionists draw on the military imagery of Hanukkah, while others look to the synagogue prayers that focus on the miracle of ...

A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

Indeed, any one of their military triumphs against the Syrians could have been considered the “miracle of Chanukah,” but it ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the longest remains of an ancient wall that once encircled Jerusalem during the time of ...

(RNS) — The Hebrew word for “turkey” can be translated as “thanksgiving.” And it has nothing to do with the fact that the bird is traditionally part of American Thanksgiving feasts. It is, rather, the ...

As a yarmulke-wearing summer college intern in Coats’s office at the time, I fondly recall the senator’s warm and sincere enthusiasm for the project, for the Jewish people in general, and for his ...

After reconfiguring and rethinking two floors of its Fifth Avenue mansion, the museum reopens them to the public. The museum will open its completed building project to the public on Oct.

The Jewish prayer shawl, the tallit, is as mysterious as it is iconic. Worn by Jews each morning when they pray to God, it connects them to the divine realm, their history, and their culture. However, ...