BEN SHEMEN FOREST, Israel – Israeli archaeologists may be one step closer to solving a riddle that has vexed explorers for more than a century: the location of the fabled tomb of the biblical ...

Chanukah is often described as a festival of light, warmth, and resilience. That description is not wrong—but it is ...

Sixty years ago this autumn, the British reluctantly agreed to establish a Jewish armed force to take part in the Allied war against Nazi Germany. Hailed as the modern-day incarnation of the Maccabee ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — In 165 BCE, a group of warriors led by Judah Maccabee and his band of brothers ushered in a new era in Jewish history when they routed the soldiers of the Greek-Syrian empire and ...

The area of ancient Modin, birthplace of the Maccabees, Israel’s liberator-kings, will be resettled and named for Itzhak Ben Zvi, Israel’s recently elected President, it was announced last night by ...

In Israel today, Chanukah has become a holiday that inspires the modern nation, as it commemorates the ancient struggle for ...

My life began in the tight embrace of the Jewish Theological Seminary where my dad was undergoing rabbinical ordination and continued in the tighter squeeze of the approximate 100,000 Jews residing in ...

So how is it really supposed to be spelled? This is a question without a definitive answer, as there are many ways to spell the name of the holiday. The word is derived from translated Hebrew that ...

The world’s most influential moral and religious traditions rest, in part, on a people who refused to disappear.