One might say that the menorah and the ketoret were temidin, while the lechem hapanim was only switched once a week, on Shabbat. However, although it was only switched once a week, the lechem hapanim ...

Proper historical perspective attests the fact that Harry Truman faced up courageously to more grave decisions than any other ...

The Jewish character in Disney’s Mickey Mouse Funhouse may be having a crisis of faith. In the holiday episode Nochebuena at ...

The Maccabees won back the Second Temple and lit a menorah with just one day’s worth of oil, but the oil lasted for eight days. Many saw this as a miracle. That light came to stand for strength ...

Within 48 hours, Yemen lit up like a menorah on the eighth night. Power stations, airports, drones, military facilities—gone.

Israel may be crushed, but like the olive, it transforms its suffering into the oil of light. This is why the Menorah — fueled by pure olive oil — is the eternal symbol of Israel. Hope against ...

which the Torah hints at by continuing with the mitzvah of the Menorah, lit by pure olive oil. And reading this Parashah at this time of the year gives us an ever-so-subtle hint that yet another ...

(Many Christians hunger for that experience!). Oil was also a source of lighting. God instructed the lighting of the menorah (the seven branch candelabra) and other Temple lights with olive oil ...

From tastings with olive oil sommeliers to celebrating harvest season at family-run mills, here’s how to experience ...

Plans to drill for oil in the protected Mesopotamian Marshes of southern Iraq have galvanised villagers and activists ...