Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights. While not as overtly holy a Jewish holiday as Passover or Yom Kippur, Hanukkah has been embraced by the Western world as an often blue-and-white answer to ...

The festival of lights is upon us and that means it's time to brush up on what to say as we light our menorahs, some songs to play for our socially-limited gatherings and quotes to post on Instagram.

A song in Hebrew rang out from a crowd gathered in a Harford County park at sundown Wednesday. Throughout the joyful salute to Hanukkah, Peter Silton held a burning torch. After the singers intoned, ...

A resident at the Heritage Community passes out Hanukkah gelt is passed out to the attendees of a small menorah lighting ceremony in the Performing Arts Building on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018, in Provo.

An initiative is seeking to invite Jews worldwide to recite a newly drafted Hanukkah prayer for hostages, October 7 victims, and IDF soldiers, Tzohar Rabbinical Organization chairman and founder Rabbi ...

Hanukkah, which began Sunday night this year, commemorates a great Jewish victory over oppression by the Syrian Greeks in 164 B.C. The Greek king of the Seleucid Empire, Antiochus Epiphanes, imposed a ...

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