Tu Bishvat is not mentioned in the Bible at all. It first appears in the Mishna (around 200 CE), not as a festival but simply as a date marking the calculation of tithes for fruit trees. Over the ...

It has continued to play to sold-out audiences at film festivals and theatrical ... based theatre company promoting Jewish literacy by making biblical Jewish texts accessible to various audiences.

I debated Abdullah al Andalusi from the Muslim Debate Initiative at Manchester University (UK) on the subject of “Is Anti ...

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

Many in the technology industry are frantically rewriting the plot in order to introduce deus ex machina in order to save ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. 2 Macc is not a sequel ... of the Temple is the basis for the Jewish feast of Hanukkah. After more victories, Judas dies in battle ...

According to this verse in the Bible, at least some of the disciples ... 2:16-17] According to these verses, the Hebrew diet, festivals and Sabbaths are no longer obligations for Christians.

My cousin’s eldest son fell in love with a childhood sweetheart whose family is part-Greek. It was a match made in the ...

Candlemas Day, or the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord ... forty days after the birth of her Son, as required by Jewish law as found in chapter 13 of the Book of Leviticus. The women of Israel ...

Our 46 Heads of State all had interactions with the Jewish community – positive and negative, historic and bizarre ...

It was shortened and somewhat reorganized by Father Johann Roten. The following feature points to the evolution of Marian Feasts in the recent past. It shows the feasts in vigor before the liturgical ...