Each year, Hanukkah is celebrated in late November or early December. The exact date the celebration begins and ends changes year by year, as it is determined by the 25th day of Kislev, according to ...

Hanukkah is the Jewish eight-day, wintertime festival. The focus of the holiday is the nightly lighting of the menorah, special prayers, small gifts and fried foods. Known as Chanukah in Hebrew, ...

Rabbi Jason Miller, tech entrepreneur and blogger, has once again come up with a list of the best Hanukkah videos of the year on his blog. Each year I put together a list of the best Hanukkah videos ...

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Rabbi Akiva Hall lights the menorah during Congregation Beth Israel of Gulfport's ceremony on the seventh night of Hanukkah at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on Wednesday, Dec. 13, ...

Join Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz for new original tales for the season from authors Theodore Bikel, Anne Burt and more. Hanukkah Lights 2014 Hanukkah Lights 2014 Hanukkah Lights 2014 Hanukkah ...

How is Hanukkah celebrated? Learn the history of the most common Hanukkah traditions that make up the Festival of Lights. But what exactly are these Hanukkah traditions? Whether you’re Jewish or ...

There’s a funny misconception among Gentiles that Hanukkah is one of Judaism’s most important religious holidays, i.e., Jewish Christmas. Not to be a Jewcrooge (“Jewish scrooge,” obviously), but that ...

Over 50 years after the first public menorah lighting in Philadelphia, annual tradition has spread to some 15,000 locales ...