However, the Second Book of the Maccabees (c. 124 BCE), written in Egypt, notes that Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days ...

As long as Jews have been Jews, from God’s call to Abraham in Genesis chapter 12, our identity has been measured by way of ...

On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah.

Hanukkah 2025 runs from 14 to 22 December, marking eight nights of light, resilience and community. The Jewish Festival of Lights commemorates the rededication of the Temple and the miracle of oil ...

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

Indeed, any one of their military triumphs against the Syrians could have been considered the “miracle of Chanukah,” but it ...

When I was a student at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, we often kvetched that one could spend six years in rabbinical school and still not know why Jews light candles on Shabbat or why we ...

Rabbi Halivni’s magnum opus is Mekorot Umesorot (Sources and Traditions), a monumental 10-volume, source-critical commentary on the Talmud in Hebrew, which shows that the Talmud consists of layers, ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Robyn J. Whitaker is affiliated with The Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy. Mehmet Ozalp is affiliated with Islamic Sciences and Research Academy Suzanne Rutland has received an ...