About 100 women gathered at the Western Wall to light Chanukah candles. Security guards permitted 20 women to enter with their menorahs, but then attempted to ban and confiscate a large communal one ...

In 2024, Hanukkah begins at sundown on Dec. 25 and is celebrated until the last night on Thursday, Jan. 2. Hanukkah (alternately spelled Chanukah), means "dedication" in Hebrew, and commemorates the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Rabbi Yosef Wolvovsky said every candle in the menorah represents the souls of those ...

Mount Airy’s Annual Chanukah Menorah lighting at the Train Station Rail Yard, Thursday December 7, 2023 included latkes and other treats face painting, hot drinks, music, and a fire juggler. Dec. 7, ...

Question: The Gemara says the menorah should be placed outside the front door of one’s house but can be placed inside if one is worried about anti-Semitism. But how does placing the menorah solve this ...

For those of you who don’t know, I’m a big Pico Blvd. fan. The road…the lights…the people—all Jewish, for the most part. That’s why I decided to light Day ...

Menorah Spreading Light – With many facets, evolving, expanding and spreading, this menorah looks like a cosmic tree. It gives way to refracted colors of light in crystalline patterns in every ...

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 spirit of ecumenism was manifested today in several Chanukah programs held in Catholic institutions in several parts of the country for Catholic adults and children. In Chicago, an audience of ...