As many as 20,000 more children will receive targeted help to address speech and language difficulties before they become major issues.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews violently protested Israel’s military draft on Monday, clashing with police outside two IDF enlistment centers. Chanting slogans like “Zionists are not Jews” and “We prefer death ...

Jannaeus, a Jewish leader of the Hasmonean dynasty, predated the destruction of the Second Temple, which was a major Jewish pilgrimage site and closely related to the story of Hanukkah.

The ancient route led to the Alexandrion Fortress thousands of years ago; an outpost erected during the Hasmonean period in the first century B.C. The coins were discovered on grounds which ...

A coin hoard dating back about 2,100 years, during the time of the Jewish Hasmonean kings, has been discovered at a site in the Jordan Valley. When you purchase through links on our site ...

In what they called an “archaeological Hanukkah miracle,” a University of Haifa team discovered on Friday a rare hoard of some 160 coins, dating from the Hasmonean period, during a dig in the ...

The ancient books rejected by the Talmud, namely the two books of Maccabees and Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews, present Hanukkah as a celebration of the Hasmonean military victory over the ...

Plus, the descendants of the Maccabees who ruled as the Hasmonean dynasty were deeply flawed characters. They combined the office of king and high priest in their own persons, violating the ...

While exploring the area around the hotel that he had been evacuated to along the Dead Sea, Nati Toyikar came across an ancient coin dating back to the Hasmonean period 2,000 year old Hasmonean ...

Hyrcania is mentioned in Josephus' book "Antiquities of the Jews" as one of the three fortresses that queen Salome Alexandra, wife of Alexander Janneaus (the second Hasmonean king who ruled the ...