The first night of Hanukkah was a joyous one in Brooklyn, as hundreds of people from all over the country gathered to light the borough’s largest menorah in Grand Army Plaza. It was a cold night ...

To commemorate this miracle and their freedom from foreign occupation, Jewish sages declared an eight-day holiday to be celebrated each year. The Hanukkah menorah is intended not to light the ...

To commemorate this miracle and their freedom from foreign occupation, Jewish sages declared an eight-day holiday to be celebrated each year. The Hanukkah menorah is intended not to light the ...

On Hanukkah 1932, just prior to the elections that would bring Hitler to power, Rachel Posner, wife of Rabbi Dr. Akiva Posner, took this photo of the family’s Hanukkah menorah from the window ...

According to the Talmud, Chanukah celebrates the miracle of that oil lasting eight days. But the greater significance remains the Jewish community’s refusal to bend and disappear, or to hide.

On Monday evening, bring your own menorah to light at the Miracle of Light festival. Prev Next It’s the fourth night of Hanukkah, and in Franklin, they're busy preparing for the second-annual ...

Stephen Fine, in his excellent book “The Menorah,” mentions a Papal ritual that lasted until the 1500’s. Each new Pope would call representatives of the Jewish community of Rome to meet them ...

My kids and I drove to Barnes & Noble one day in mid-November, after I got a tip to check out their challah-shaped menorah. It was adorable — and ritually correct.

Jews throughout the world are celebrating Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, by lighting candles on a unique, eight-branched candelabra, the menorah.

The menorah on the first night of Hanukkah. Photo by Erica Price “We are hoping, and we’re praying that we experience a miracle at this time, for the hostages … that they be released to light, and ...