The opening words of Parshat Tetzaveh are: “You shall further instruct the Israelites to bring you clear oil of beaten olives ...

It is no coincidence, then, that the Jews were commanded to place cherubim atop the Ark of the Covenant, which holds the Ten ...

Cupids often are represented holding cups and associated with Dionysus, the god of the grape harvest, Goodenough explained in “Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period.” The suggestion is that ...

The six points on the Jewish Star of David serve ... shown in the middle of the symbol. This sword represents divine knowledge, the power of God, and the divide between truth and falsehood.

Jews believe that there is only one God, with whom they ... The Books of Samuel in the Jewish Bible tell how David killed the giant Goliath, with this symbol displayed on his shield.

The most famous symbol of Hanukkah is the ... and had a statue of the Greek god Zeus installed in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. A group of Jewish people, known as the Maccabees, who wanted to ...

A Chicago TV station used a Nazi symbol to explain a Jewish holiday. The segment was an explainer on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement and the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. In it ...

(JTA) — Lithuania announced it would celebrate Jewish heritage with a special coin, which some critics charge features a symbol associated with far-right admirers of Holocaust perpetrators.