Next week, we'll get a rare cultural confluence: the first night of Hanukkah and Christmas Day coincide for only the fifth time in a century.
Today, Jews light the menorah, a candelabra with eight candles – and one “helper” candle, called a shamas – to remember the ...
It must have been an extraordinary experience when the kohanim in the days of the Hasmoneans suddenly realized that a tiny ...
Like the Jews at the end of the Hanukkah story, Oct. 8 Jews are beginning to rededicate themselves. For some, as the Wall Street Journal reported, the change has been spiritual: Synagogues have ...
which is why Jews light a candle every day of Hanukkah The Hanukiah symbolises how God looked after the Jewish people during ...
JPPI survey reveals strong ties between American Jews and Israel, with 90% avoiding Christmas trees and most lighting ...
The day after the Jewish Herald-Voice published an article about the event, the owner said someone shattered a window at his ...
Strands is a word-search game where participants identify six hidden words or phrases in a matrix of letters, including a ...
Because Judaism uses a modified lunar calendar, rather than the familiar solar calendar, the secular dates of Hanukkah vary from year to year.
Jewish members of The Chabad Jewish Center of Greenville held a Hanukkah car parade on New Year Year's Day in downtown ...
It must have been an extraordinary experience when the kohanim in the days of the Hasmoneans suddenly realized that a tiny amount of oil that should have lasted for only one day would last for eight ...