A rare, 4th-century CE ceramic oil lamp recently discovered during Israeli Antiquities Authorities excavations near the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem will be displayed to the public for the first ...

"The menorah, incense shovel and lulav are symbols ... Chernin added that the oil lamp was "particularly surprising" because very little is known about Jews who lived in Jerusalem in the fourth ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have discovered a 1,700-year-old oil lamp decorated with rare Jewish artwork, including a unique menorah — a surprise given that the Roman Empire had tried to ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Students working to build the “Sanhedrin Trail” in Israel’s Galilee unearthed a 1,400-year-old oil lamp bearing the symbol of the Jerusalem Temple’s menorah ...

IAA archaeologist Benjamin Storchan said the lamp was “the ‘Beit Nattif’ type, named after a production workshop identified in the 1930s near Bet Shemesh.” “Oil lamps with menorah ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an incredible ceramic oil lamp from the Late Roman period. Although this isn’t a genie-containing situation, it is decorated with depictions of the Temple menorah ...

According to the Talmud, Chanukah celebrates the miracle of that oil lasting ... the Chanukah menorah is nuanced: “Our rabbis taught: it is incumbent to place the Chanukah lamp by the door ...

Free public menorah lightings are scheduled for ... Maccabee and his soldiers wanted to light the temple's ceremonial lamp with ritually pure olive oil as part of their rededication but found ...

"The Hanukkah lamp is an eight-branched imitation of ... According to tenement.org, the oil of the menorah remained aflame for eight days despite only being enough for a single day after the ...