The festival commemorates both the 164 BCE rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem after its desecration by the ruling Seleucid Kingdom and the re-establishment of religious freedom ...

A number of issues were discussed, including the development of the Baptismal site and the progress of the Land of the Monasteries initiative which the President has been leading in recent ...

President Rivlin: Zero tolerance for anti-Semitism means providing security for Jewish communities, and countering religious extremism. It means effective legislation, and effective Holocau ...

For the first time since it was burned in the Holocaust and destroyed, excavations have exposed 200-year-old Hebrew inscriptions in the Great Synagogue of Vilnius (Vilna).

Purim, one of Judaism's more colorful and popular holidays, commemorates the events described in the Book of Esther. Traditionally symbolizing the victory of the Jewish people over anti-Sem ...