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During Hanukkah, explore the history and traditions of the menorah and how it symbolizes resilience through its Hanukkah flames, marking the Temple's re-dedication.
For several years, a menorah has stood alongside the Christmas tree inside the county courthouse in Missoula, Mont. This year, a local rabbi asked officials to erect a Hanukkah display on the ...
Students at the Moriah School in Englewood, N.J., created a Hanukkah menorah using shards of pottery destroyed at the home of ...
Family celebrates Hanukkah with ‘miracle’ menorah from late dad who found it years after losing it in the Holocaust By . Doree Lewak. Published Dec. 7, 2023, 5:56 p.m. ET.
Europe Polish leaders celebrate Hanukkah after menorah extinguished by far-right lawmaker Grzegorz Braun hosed menorah down with fire extinguisher earlier this week, making international headlines ...
Put your Hanukkah menorah in your window. Display your candles. Be visible with your lights. Be public about your Judaism and about your Jewishness, even and especially if it had previously not ...
Happy Hanukkah! Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered to celebrate the first night of the festival of lights as Rabbi Shmuel M. Butman lit the world’s largest menorah. See the celebration here.
Hanukkah officially arrived in the White House a decade later, when President George H.W. Bush displayed a menorah (given to him by the Synagogue Council of America) in the building.
Hanukkah can begin as early as Nov. 28 and as late as Dec. 27. This Jewish holiday, also known as the festival of lights, celebrates the Maccabean revolt against the Syrian-Greek army.
For Hanukkah, Long Beach's menorah stands 27 feet tall. Rabbi Eli Goodman, head of Chabad of the Beaches, in front of one of Long Island's tallest and largest menorahs in Long Beach on Friday.
Hanukkah, the eight-day festival of lights, which ends this week, is a minor holiday of the Jewish calendar, but this year the addition of every candle on the menorah holds greater significance.
Before President Jimmy Carter lit the menorah outside the White House in 1979, the Secret Service hurried to a nearby store for a box of eight-inch long matches. And that’s how Allye Kranish ...