GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Sunday marked the first night of Hanukkah — the Festival of Lights in Jewish tradition. The eight-day observance goes through Monday, Dec. 6. To give a lesson about Hanukkah to ...
Hanukkah commemorates the victory in 164 B.C. of a group of Jewish people (the Maccabees) over the Syrian Greeks, who had been occupying the Land of Israel since before 167 B.C. Not only had the ...
Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, falls near the end of each calendar year. Sometimes overlapping with Christmas, and sometimes falling nearer to Thanksgiving, Hanukkah lasts eight days and is ...