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.

There is something about the mother-child bond that holds even after death. This fact makes it easier to consider all the ...

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 ...

February 2 marks the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. St Bede wrote of Christ as the Temple itself A sublime if slightly rubbed illumination stands at the start of the Gospels in the Codex ...

World Wetlands Day is celebrated annually on February 2 in honor of the signing of the Ramsar Convention. This holiday is ...

The church will hold the First Friday Fundraiser on Friday, Feb. 7, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The Spaghetti Dinner will be to ...

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.