We’ve been watching antisemitism rise, largely unchecked, in the Australian city. Our worst fears came true Sunday at Bondi ...

The victory in war and the dedication of the altar are one and the same. And today we have been privileged to see both.

Amazingly, the Maccabees were able to defeat the major world power of their day. We should be looking more carefully at the ...

The oil lasting then isn’t a simple metaphor such as the Jewish people never gave out the entire time, or inspired poetic symbolism that the fire inside needed to keep fighting remained burning. Maybe ...

Hanukkah’s story hides a complex past involving power. For converts, the holiday forces questions about how Judaism receives ...

Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster considers what commitment means in Judaism.

Concerning the Christmas tree, Jeremiah 10 has precisely zero to do with it. That chapter predated Christ by around 600 years, and Christmas trees by farther than that. It is very clearly a ...

In our part of the world, the week of Hanukkah is the darkest week of the entire year. The days are shortest, the nights ...

From a bird's-eye view high above St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, a stunning photograph shows the estimated 250,000 ...

Once an influential Jewish hub on Central Asia's Silk Road, urban center in Uzbekistan is now home to just several hundred ...

Israel accuses Hezbollah of refusing to disarm. Lebanese officials hope their efforts to rein in the militant group will head off Israeli military escalation.

Every year, social media abounds with opinions on all things Christmas. If social media had existed in Dickens’ day, one can only imagine how gleefully pre-redemption Scrooge would have used ...