In the words of Ross Douthat, opinion columnist at The Times: “[W]e miss the WASPs — because we feel, at some level, that their more meritocratic and diverse and secular successors rule us neither as ...
As we reflect on the origin of Hanukkah, we can better understand the Jewish response to the devastating Bondi Beach Hanukkah ...
These brave men will soon join the ranks of playable factions in Rome 2. The developers at The Creative Assembly have revealed a new playable faction in Total War: Rome 2, the Seleucids, and have ...
The present article explores the role and character of the numismatic production of Phoenician cities in the Hellenistic age with a focus on the Seleucid period. A diachronic approach to iconography, ...
Indeed, any one of their military triumphs against the Syrians could have been considered the “miracle of Chanukah,” but it was the retaking of Jerusalem and the rededication of the Temple that ended ...
Jerusalem Post / Opinion Jew vs Jew: The real Hanukkah story and why it matters - opinion Hanukkah is, quite frankly, the most misunderstood holiday in all of Judaism. Its real story is not of Jews vs ...
The annual celebration's origins can be traced to a historical conflict between the ruling Greek Seleucid Empire and the Jewish Maccabees in the second century BC. In approximately 168 BC, King ...
If I were provident, I’d save this letter, which arrived some two months ago, until December. But who can wait so long? So here it is now, from John Miller of Bryan, Texas: “Every year it happens. As ...
I am writing this on Sunday night, the first night of Hanukkah. I woke this morning to the news that a father-son team had murdered fifteen people during their Hanukkah ...
In 549 BCE, the Persians, led by Cyrus the Great of the Archaemenian family, overthrew the Median court of Western Iran. Cyrus thus founded the first Persian Empire. The Archaemenian kings are known ...
Celebrated over eight days and nights, Hanukkah commemorates a people’s uprising and holy miracle from more than 2,000 years ago. On the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, a colorful menorah lights up the ...