Ancient Jewish History

                            The wonderfully joyous holiday of Chanuka occurs this month. In light of the horrific events of the past few...

The breaching of the walls of Jerusalem. The fast day of the tenth of Tevet, which...

Arch of Titus in Rome We are currently in the midst of the weeks of mourning...

The great fortifications that the Hasmonean kings built and a law about Chanukah that teaches us a tremendous lesson about...

Many non-Jews such as Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy have penned keen insights into the Jewish people. Paul Johnson in...

Chanukah is made up of 2 radically different components. One is the war. The other is the miraculous event of...

It is hard to imagine a less probable heroine than Esther. On the surface, the Book...

The story of the Exodus provides a seminal life lesson about how to deal with all types of troubles from...

  On January 10, 49 BCE, Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war between his forces...

A section of the Papyrus of Ani showing cursive hieroglyphs. If we were to tell the...