Rav Yitzchok Hutner's thoughts on the significance of the Maccabees' victory over the Greeks: 'The rekindling of the Temple ...

Zionism turned the moral of the Hanukkah story on its head to praise militarism. In truth, it is a holiday of peace.

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight ...

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

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

However, the Second Book of the Maccabees (c. 124 BCE), written in Egypt, notes that Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

Eighty-one years ago, while America was at war and millions of Jews were being slaughtered, the rabbi of the Washington ...

Fr Bashar Fawadleh, the local parish priest, spoke to AsiaNews about the current situation. Local security "is fragile,” he ...

It has been a banner year for the restoration of heritage in Mosul, a city rising from the ashes of war and still recovering ...

This Hanukah story is about two kinds of battle; the physical struggle against others (political and sometimes military); and the spiritual struggle within ourselves to trust in God (the oil).

What do we make of Christmas as it comes careening towards us? Some of us won’t have a Christian background and will ...