Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bronze coin from the Asia Minor city of Side found at Horbat Bet Zecharia south of Jerusalem, where the Maccabees fought the ...

ST. LOUIS – Wednesday marks the first time the start of Hanukkah and Christmas have fallen on the same day since 2005 and only the fifth time since 1900. Hanukkah, also called the Festival of Lights, ...

For only the fifth time in the last 125 years, Christmas and the first night of Hannukah coincide. It’s a wonderful occasion that has special meaning in this time of rising attacks on both Christians ...

MODI’IN, Israel — Hanukkah is about to be celebrated by Jews worldwide. For some Israeli Jews, the holiday pervades life year-round, because they live where the history is believed to have happened.

Although George Frideric Handel’s oratorio “Judas Maccabaeus” has come to be associated with Chanukah, it actually never touches on the miracle that the holiday commemorates: that a single day’s worth ...

What do we celebrate on Hanukkah? After quickly mentioning the miraculous jar of temple oil that burned for eight days, many sources will tell you it’s about the unlikely triumph of the Maccabees, who ...

George Frideric Handel composed about 25 oratorios, nearly half of them on Jewish themes. Some were enormous hits when they were premiered in the first half of the 18th century. Most were in English ...