The new documentary 'Torah Tropical' shows the struggle of Latin American converts to be accepted by the broader Jewish ...

Hanukkah is known as a festival of lights that gets its start dating back to a conflict in the year 168 B.C.E. where the Jewish people defeated the Syrian Greeks, who sought to annihilate their ...

The oil wasn’t the miracle of Hanukkah. The real miracle was that the Maccabees, a tiny band of Jewish guerrillas, defeated the Syrian-Greek army — the mightiest army in the world — and ...

In Hebrew, Hanukkah means “dedication,” and the holiday marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd century B.C.E. after a small group of Jewish fighters liberated it from ...

Greek Orthodox Christians worldwide observe a pre-Christmas preparation ... Mummers in medieval English villages wore masks and women’s clothing sang festive folk songs, and told jokes door-to-door.

Photo: Getty Images Opinion: As the year winds down and we pause for some reflection, I find myself, as chair of the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand, contemplating the unprecedented hatred aimed at ...

The artifacts include coffee mugs with a bagel-esque hole in them that were created by Lender’s Bagel company, and hangers from a wide range of Jewish clothing stores over the decades, such as Enson’s ...

The military has asked for extra manpower in light of the war in Gaza and connected conflicts, while the Supreme Court ruled in June that the state must draft ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into ...

A man walks past the belongings of family members and some of the children who were rescued from the Lev Tahor Jewish sect (Photo by JOHAN ORDONEZ / AFP) Guatemalan officials said Sunday that members ...

Johan Ordonez/AFP] Published On 23 Dec 202423 Dec 2024 Guatemalan authorities have recovered several children taken by members of an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect who had broken into a care centre ...