Hanukkah celebrations begin at sundown Dec. 25 and continue through Jan. 2. The Jewish festival, sometimes called the Festival of Lights, hearkens back to the restoration of Jerusalem and the ...

The menorah we now use on Hanukkah is called a hanukkiah and has ... the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, which became the template for the Christian version of the Bible.

And a 2020 survey by Pew found that upwards of 80% of American Jews own a Hanukkah menorah. Likewise, this week’s study found that 62% of Israeli Jews, and 49% of American Jews, perform ...

It took three attempts — with the crowd’s encouraging laughter — but Monday night marked the first time a Lehigh University president helped light a menorah to mark Hanukkah. About 100 ...

In the days after a condo building collapsed near his synagogue in 2021, Rabbi Sholom Lipskar became even more of a local celebrity than he was already. The head of The Shul, one of the largest ...

An impressive limestone capital decorated with menorahs (Jewish ritual candelabras) unearthed in Jerusalem and dating from a period when Jews were barred by the Romans from living in the holy city ...

Many donees dig the vintage verdigris Israeli style, and we received it by the hundreds in the form of wall hangings, Seder plates, Hanukkah menorahs and more. 224: Permanently stained challah ...

After eight people were murdered in the Arab community over the weekend, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir urged police to issue administrative orders against criminal suspects, making ...

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Nothing about the appearance of object MB02280 at this city’s Jewish Historical Museum suggests it is the capital’s priciest Hanukkah menorah, worth more than the average local price ...