The Middle East lurches from conflict to conflict, as Syrian rebels deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad days after Israel ...

Israel's ultranationalist security minister ascended to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Thursday for what he said ...

Avi Loeb explains why humans could have behaved more intelligently throughout our history, and what that means for the future ...

"This abandonment of free expression and intellectual diversity should concern us all," writes one reader. Another: "The ...

The past year brought deaths, regional conflict, indictments and more. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ends it having ...

Why is Hanukkah so late this year? The simple answer is that the Jewish calendar is based on lunar cycles, and is not in sync ...

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

For the 41st year in a row, the community came together to light a menorah on Boston Common for the Jewish festival of ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - For the first time in nearly a decade, the first night of Hanukkah has fallen on Christmas Day, with ...

The 8-day festival began on the same day as Christmas this year – the first time the two holidays have coincided since 2005.

With Hanukkah this year coming at the same time as Christmas, it is a wonderful reminder for us all—Christians and Jews— that ...

Rabbi Meir Soloveichik relfects on how the Jewish holiday celebrates not a moment in time, but the defiance of time.