Hanukkah is coming the evening of Thursday, December 7, 2023! The Festival of Lights is a joyous time of year for the Jewish community and one of the most famous of their celebrations in the Western ...

A team of archeologists uncovered roof tiles in an archaeological site known as the City of David that may have played a role in the Maccabean Revolt. The knowledge of how these particular ceramic ...

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Were it not for its proximity to Christmas, Hanukkah would be unknown to most non-Jews and it would not be celebrated by most non-religious Jews. The proof is that the other post-Hebrew Bible holiday, ...

Greetings from Antiochus Epiphanes: The earliest evidence to date for the use of ceramic rooftiles in the Land of Israel has been uncovered in the City of David National Park surrounding the walls of ...

Do you know the origin of the phrase “a line on the sand”? Believe it or not, it’s related to the story of Hanukkah, and it refers to the beginning of the end for that story’s main villain, Antiochus ...

An Israeli antiquity authority worker removes dust at a site that archaeologists say contains the remnants of an ancient Greek fortress associated with the Jewish holiday Hannukah, outside the walled ...

(JNS) Roof tiles dating back over 2,000 years uncovered just outside the Old City of Jerusalem provide a tangible connection to the story of Hanukkah, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced. The ...

Most admirable and worthy of everlasting remembrance was the mother who, seeing her seven sons perish in a single day, bore it courageously because of her hope in the Lord. ―2 Maccabees 7:20 During ...

A coin depicting the ancient Greek king Antiochus IV, a villain in the Jewish Hanukkah story, has been discovered among a trove of artifacts stolen from a sacred site in Israel. The piece, minted ...

While most English translations render nbzh in Dan 11:21 as "contemptible, vile, despicable," closer examination will demonstrate that this Biblical Hebrew word should be translated as "spurned, ...

President Zelenskyy of Ukraine has been compared to Winston Churchill and King David, but should we now also compare him to Judah Maccabee? Recent reports claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin ...