“People are always impatient, but God is never in a hurry!” Nikos Kazantzakis wrote those words and they highlight an ...

The Jewish festival of Hannukah, which this year runs from 25 December to 2 January, actually has a lot in common with the ...

But the reason it has become such a significant Jewish holiday is not simply because of its proximity to the winter holiday ...

5. The story of the Maccabees cannot be found in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), written only in Hebrew and Aramaic. Maccabees I-IV were written in Greek and can be found in the Apocrypha of Catholic ...

Hanukkah commemorates the victory of the Jewish people over the Syrian army in a fight to gain religious freedom. When the ...