The term “Old Testament” is a loaded one since it assumes the existence of a “new” testament — an idea Christians and ...

Using the Hebrew Scripture would have been as effective ... is not alone in accepting the Books which Protestants label as "Apocrypha." The Coptic, Greek and Russian Orthodox churches also ...

The events of the four books about the Maccabees’ victories over the Syrian-Greeks are not found in the Hebrew Bible. But the books of the Maccabees, now found in the Apocrypha, were written ...

The Jewish festival of Hanukkah, which in 2022 begins on the evening of Dec. 18, focuses on the story of the male Maccabees.

In mainstream American culture Yiddish — an Eastern European blend of German with a great many Hebrew, Aramaic and Slavic words — is these days either a punchline (a “chutzpah” or a “klu ...

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The 79-year-old Bresheeth, a Jewish Israeli who has lived mostly in London since the 1970s, is an outspoken critic of Zionism and Israel and a supporter of Palestinian rights. He is the son of ...

Jewish teens in the United States are significantly more likely to hold critical views of Israel and sympathize with Hamas compared to their peers in other countries, according to a newly released ...

The scripture from Hebrew’s then goes on to relate some of the story of Moses. In faith, Moses is hidden as an infant, so the Egyptian authorities would not take the beautiful, male baby and ...