1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. 2 Macc is not a sequel ... 1 Macc narrates the struggle of the Jewish people against the political and cultural influence of the ...

Jason Friedman documents the Cohen family, who owned slaves and fought on the Confederate side in the Civil War.

As smoke filled the air and flames approached on Tuesday, Jan. 7, leaders at the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center came ...

I threw a few documents, clothes and photo albums in a pile on the living room floor, and on top of those I placed these Jewish family heirlooms in a Trader Joe’s paper bag. I haven’t needed ...

a painter whose German-Jewish family had settled in Baltimore in the 1840s. Their secular household embraced American society. The Oppenheimers never went to a synagogue or had a bar mitzvah for ...

Now six stone jars were standing there, for the Jewish rites of purification ... to that ‘beginning of the signs' which reveal the messianic power of her Son. We read: ‘When the wine gave ...

The word covenant means agreement, such as a contract between two people. Many Jews see their relationship with God as a covenant, or an agreement. The belief is that God asks them to do certain ...

A renewed partnership with the American Bible Society will allow Habitat for Humanity to continue giving a Bible along with house keys to new homeowners. NEW YORK – Since its founding in 1976, Habitat ...

Bible Society New Zealand (BSNZ) is one of the biggest Christian charities in New Zealand. This year they celebrate their 171 st year of operation, making them one of the oldest organisations in the ...

It would spawn what is surely the most influential book of all time: the Bible. Merneptah’s Stele may describe more Jewish pain at the hands of their ... and Christians claimed them as foretelling ...