Police arrested five teenagers in Golders Green, including pupils from Hasmonean Boys School, during Purim celebrations on ...

The view from above, where part of an imposing wall still stands, is payment for all the hard work, making it clear why Hasmonean King Alexander Janneus chose this location to build his fortress ...

Juan, an American tourist from California, discovered a rare coin from the Second Jewish Temple era at Shiloh, an ancient archaeological site in Samaria, which is internationally recognized as the ...

This date was observed as a holiday in Hasmonean times (Megillat Taanit). Birthday of Alfred Einhorn, German chemist who synthesized procaine in 1905, which he patented under the name Novocaine.

According to the Bible, David gathered building materials for a temple that was to replace Israel’s mobile house of worship, called the tabernacle, which had been built under Moses’s direction during ...