In the same visit, Effie and Oshrat talked about the time Yuval analyzed one of poetess Zelda’s poems. A line from a ...

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A Narrative Theology of Judaism,' Rabbi Yitz Greenberg revisits the central question posed to us by the Holocaust and Oct. 7.

Former President Jimmy Carter was widely known as a man of faith, a born-again Christian who defined himself as a progressive ...

Starting with Jesus’ Palm Sunday ride into Jerusalem, the events written in the Bible’s New Testament leading up to the ...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old and had spent more than a year in hospice care.

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

A rare 1,700-year-old lamp with Jewish Temple symbols has been uncovered in Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced.

With no Christmas tree or decorations adorning the Church of the Nativity, revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, holiday ...

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

Haroun Nasser al-Din, a member of Hamas's diplomatic bureau and the movement's Jerusalem office chief, is calling on the Muslim public to come to the al-Aqsa Mosque to strengthen the Muslim hold ...

While many families celebrate the miracle of Christmas and their decorative lights abound, many Jews celebrate a different miracle and festival of lights. Chanukah (also spelled Hanukkah) is an ...