The tradition of building up to lighting eight oil lamps (plus one shamash, or servitor) over the Hanukkah period began in ...

Interview conducted in Jerusalem in July 2007 by Gary Glassman, producer, writer, and director of "The Bible's Buried Secrets," and edited by Susan K. Lewis, editor of NOVA Online ...

Elf on the Shelf, meet the Mensch on the Bench. As the two holidays converge, test your knowledge of Christmas and Hanukkah ...

Wine is mentioned frequently both in the Bible, the Talmud ... wines that have garnered international recognition. Various online sites, like KosherWines.com, list over 50 different wines made ...

Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion is struggling with dwindling rabbinical school enrollments and ongoing ...

John Osburg explores how members of China’s urban middle class are turning to religion and spirituality in greater numbers, ...

Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School, and the author most recently of ...

Standing in front of a small stone ossuary bearing the inscription "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus," Oded Golan ...

All fifth Sundays are a joint service of the two churches with communion rotating between the Episcopal tradition and the Lutheran tradition, followed by a joint potluck. As the only remaining ...

In a statement published by The Jerusalem Post in late November ... Owens’ antisemitic views were once again made known with her online disagreement with author Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

Patron of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Kuwait Archbishop Anba Bishoy Bigol expressed his heartfelt congratulations to His ...