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

Something new is ... 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 ...

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The New York Times’ heralded wine critic Eric ... Wine is mentioned frequently both in the Bible, the Talmud, and in rabbinic midrashic sources. Asimov could have conversed with the head of ...

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

All fifth Sundays are a joint service of the two churches with communion rotating between the Episcopal tradition and the ...

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

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

Nativity scenes around the world have added a new accessory this Christmas season ... Outrage exploded online after Pope Francis inaugurated a nativity scene, designed by two artists from ...

In a statement published by The Jerusalem Post in late November ... Cardoza-Moore’s statement comes as New Zealand cracks down on Owens by denying her entry into the country for speaking ...