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

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

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 ...

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

What do we make of Christmas as it comes careening towards us? Some of us won’t have a Christian background and will ...

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

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

Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and divisive, with some ...

Saint Alexander of Jerusalem was a bishop, martyr during the persecutions of Emperor Decius. A disciple of Saint Clement of Alexandria. He was the first Bishop of Flavia in Cappadocia and was ...

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