The real message of Chanukah To avoid both destruction and assimilation, Jews have to fight for who they are and what they stand for. Melanie Phillips Dec. 26, 2024
Hellenistic burial cave with rare mirror unearthed in Jerusalem The 2,300-year-old tomb was found aside the capital's Hebron Road. Sept. 27, 2023
The story of the Maccabees comes to life in the Lachish Forest Archaeologists and student volunteers unearth a destroyed fortress burned by Yohanan Horkanos the Hasmonean during a battle against the Seleucids some 2,100 years ago. Yori Yalon Nov. 16, 2021
The Hanukkah story that Jews need to learn Pressure to stamp out “hard-line Judaism” came from the Hellenists—the assimilated Jews. They resented the fact that their lives were made more difficult by a minority of their own people who refused to “give up their old ways.” Nov. 7, 2021
2,200-year-old earring found in Jerusalem excavation sheds light on Hellenistic period in Judea The rare artifact depicts the finely crafted head of a horned animal and delicate filigree work, and is believed to date back to the second or third century BCE. Aug. 8, 2018
