The lights, the colorful candles, the joyous prayers, the triumphant songs: There’s something about a menorah that uniquely inspires awe and gratitude, more than 2,000 years after the Hanukkah story ...
The discovery of a carved stone in ancient Magdala has given archaeologists a rare, almost cinematic glimpse into how Jews in the Second Temple period may have pictured the sacred menorah in Jerusalem ...