Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...

A Times Square billboard proclaims "Jesus is a Palestinian." That sentiment is historically inaccurate — and also dangerous.

The targeting of Jewish people is an ancient crime against humanity that seems only refreshed with each new generation.

Researchers are using a very modern tool to transcribe and read hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscripts from the lost ...

Rav Yitzchok Hutner's thoughts on the significance of the Maccabees' victory over the Greeks: 'The rekindling of the Temple Menorah on Hanukkah represents a new era of Torah transmission.' ...

As the State of Israel recovers from two years of war, a biblical book about some restorative heroes of old (sorry, Maccabees ...

The Greeks did not invent wrestling but they did bring it to a whole new level. They made it into an art form with their ...

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism's "festival of lights." On eight ...

Analysis by Hebrew University researchers shows 8,000-year-old Halafian pottery sherds bearing symmetry and numerical ...

At its core, Hanukkah is a story about government overreach — how a powerful state sought to control belief, erase identity, ...

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