As the winter nights deepen and the calendar inches towards December 7, the Festival of Lights, also known as Hanukkah, takes ...

The Jewish holiday Hanukkah (Hebrew for “dedication”) starts Wednesday and runs through Jan. 2. There are several public ...

Memory Traces mines the rich, multi-layered, and largely hidden seams of songs chanted by Yemenite Jewish women across the ...

The First Five Hundred Years,” Paula Fredriksen explores how a localized sect became a universal Roman church.

The excavation of Manot Cave in Israel has uncovered ritual sites from 35,000 years ago and evidence of Neanderthal-human ...

With significant venture capital funding, the resuscitated 1980s theme park, now in New York City, is a joy to explore—if you ...

Hanukkah (also spelled Chanukah) is a Jewish holiday that lasts for eight nights, usually in November or December. This year, it begins at sundown on Wednesday, Dec. 25, and ends with nightfall on ...

In a darkened exhibit hall at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, curators unveiled a 2,000-year-old fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls during a special media preview Nov. 15. It is a highlight of the ...

Hanukkah starts on Christmas Day this year. How often does that occur? Explaining the rare Chrismukkah convergence and other ...

Day 6 of the murder trial of Timothy Herrington, accused of killing University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee, saw more testimony from law enforcement officers involved in the ...

He was captured on some of the thousands of surveillance cameras blanketing Manhattan, allowing police to build a timeline of his movements. Here's what we know so far about what the NYPD ...

An emotional event was held at the Noam Yeshiva in Jerusalem, during which a new Torah scroll was dedicated in memory of Major Kfir Franco, a graduate of the Yeshiva and tank officer killed in ...