Oil Lamp Theater is hoping to ignite a love of theater in people of all ages at its new SPARK CENTER for the Performing Arts in Glenview. And that’s only one of their plans for the facility ...

Oil lamp decorated with a menorah and a palm frond known as a lulav Ostia Antica Archaeological Park. Caliò’s team found the roughly 1,600-year-old mikvah in a “large and rich ...

An oil lamp found at Ostia Antica has a menorah decoration. (Image credit: Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica) The Jewish presence in Rome dates back to the second century B.C., ...

The first light on a 13-foot tall menorah was lit using a hydraulic lift outside the State House in Concord on Wednesday to mark the first night of Hanukkah.Chabad Lubavitch organized the display ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have discovered a 1,700-year-old oil lamp decorated with rare Jewish artwork, including a unique menorah — a surprise given that the Roman Empire had tried to ...

(JNS) - A 1,700-year-old ceramic oil lamp, decorated with depictions of the Temple of Jerusalem's menorah, has been uncovered in the city, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Thursday. The ...

The original Temple menorah was lit daily by a priest from fresh consecrated olive oil, and was never supposed to be allowed to go out (Exodus 27:21). The Talmud forbids a seven-branched menorah from ...

The holiday celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. It commemorates an ancient miracle when the menorah — the temple’s golden seven-branched lamp — was rekindled despite having ...

That is why the Talmudic instruction to display the Chanukah menorah is nuanced: “Our rabbis taught: it is incumbent to place the Chanukah lamp by the door of one’s house on the outside.

A 1,700-year-old oil lamp dating to the Late Roman Empire was found during a dig near the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority.

The central Chanukah menorah lighting ceremony occurred Sunday, December 29, 2024, at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate with the city's governing mayor, Kai Wegner, and Holocaust survivor Margot ...