Zionists draw on the military imagery of Hanukkah, while others look to the synagogue prayers that focus on the miracle of ...

Isaiah would ask why we continue spending billions of dollars for weapons and tax cuts while cutting aid to the hungry, the ...

As participants prepare for the 70th annual Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna this coming May, WIVB spoke with a former ...

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

Among the many distinctions between Christianity and every other religion, one that stands out in particular is that God is not a far-off, uninvolved, detached deity. From the first book of the Bible ...

We learn from John’s Gospel that Jesus himself attended this festival some two centuries later, and it was in the Temple ...

Hanukkah is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one ...

After two years of devastating war, Gazans have crammed into coffee shops since the start of the month to watch their side ...

This Christmas, if you see a Nativity scene with Joseph s silhouette leaning quietly over the Christ-child, pause for a ...

My intention in declaring a no-gift Christmas was to teach our children what it felt like to be in need. But banning gifts at ...

Eighty-one years ago, while America was at war and millions of Jews were being slaughtered, the rabbi of the Washington ...

The author of a new prayer book for non-theistic Jews imagines a holiday that doesn’t celebrate military might or the supernatural.