The Conversation illuminates how Hanukkah's cultural evolution parallels Christmas, as both have adapted significantly in ...

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

The eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah commemorates ancient Jews’ victory over the powerful Seleucid empire, which ruled ...

Every menorah in a window is not only a Jewish ritual; it is an act of psychological de-biasing. It challenges the narratives ...

Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights that begins tonight, is a relatively minor holiday that has gained ...

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BEN SHEMEN FOREST, Israel - Israeli archaeologists may be one step closer to solving a riddle that has vexed explorers for more than a century: the location of the fabled tomb of the biblical ...

Each year, when Hanukkah rolls around, I feel a certain sense of unease. Hmmm. A battle between Jewish zealots and Jews who wanted to partake of the richness of the Greek world around them. I have a ...

A large mausoleum recently uncovered in Israel may be the Tomb of the Maccabees, the celebrated Jewish family that led an uprising against the Greeks in the second century B.C. Archaeologists, however ...

Here is a look at the Jewish holiday Hanukkah. In 2025, Hanukkah will start on December 14 at sunset and will end December 22, at sunset. Facts Hanukkah begins on the eve of the 25th day of the Hebrew ...

Here's when Hanukkah 2025 begins and ends, why and how the holiday is observed and when Hanukkah will fall in 2026.