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Sorry to break it to you, but Hanukkah is not that unique. Almost every culture has a midwinter holiday in which light is the main...

22 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev found himself in a situation he never imagined he’d be in: broke. This was the man who had led a world...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Israel is locked in conflict over how to treat non-Jewish people living in the land. Stark divisions...

Question: What did the first three-headed clown juggling live baby goats say to the second three-headed clown juggling live baby goats?...

Persephone was a unique goddess in Greek mythology. She lived an idyllic and lonely life in communion with Nature, far from the other...

In 1972, during Richard Nixon’s visit to China, Premier Zhou Enlai was asked what he thought about the French Revolution. He responded,...

As somebody who grew up in the Southern Hemisphere, the wintery nature of Chanukah used to elude me. During my childhood, Christmas fell...

The rabbis of the Talmud didn’t like Chanukah. No, really. They didn’t. But they had good reasons. Many of them had survived the...