Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas. Articles and op-eds in newspapers remind readers of that fact every year, lamenting ...
Hanukkah is one of the most famous holidays in the Jewish calendar, but here are facts about the Festival of Lights that you ...
Jews around the world are marking the start of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, which celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the second century B.C. after it was defiled by ...
The tree smells good. You get to bring a tree ... “I often encourage them to create a Jewish space of the Hanukkah menorah and latkes and all of that traditional space at home, before going ...
The City of Trees continued a local Hanukkah tradition Monday, December 30 with the lighting of a nearly 10-foot menorah ...
In most parts of the world, Hanukkah is a relatively minor Jewish holiday. The celebration's grander roots in the United ...
At a time of record antisemitism, diaspora Jews are contemplating the best – and safest – ways to celebrate Hanukkah, the fun ...
I was brought up Jewish but quickly absorbed my mother ... before we all lit the Hanukkah candles together, the tree towering just beyond. Even after I got divorced and remarried a Catholic ...
This year’s start of Hanukkah falls on the same night as Christmas — a rare occurrence last seen in 2005 and not to be seen again until 2035.
It has been a year of challenges for the Jewish community as it faces an ongoing rise of antisemitism, the holding of Jewish ...
Hanukkah is known as a celebration of light, specifically in times of darkness, and that held especially true this year given ...
Christmas and the first night of Hanukkah fall on the same day this year. "Thank God," writes Zibby Owens, the editor of ...