In 2024, Hanukkah begins at sundown on Dec. 25 and is celebrated until the last night on Thursday, Jan. 2. Hanukkah (alternately spelled Chanukah), means "dedication" in Hebrew, and commemorates the ...

Chanukah candles have become more elaborate in recent years, coming in all kinds of new colored patterns and designs. "You could almost accessorize your candles with your menorah," says Stacey Zaleski ...

We were searching for an Israeli Jew who does not light Chanukah candles. Surely, there is one such person. Someone must have forgotten to light his Menorah, or didn’t feel like it, or does not ...

The IDF Rabbinate has produced a specially designed menorah in 2024, delivering them to soldiers in active combat zones. Under the shadow of the war in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria, the Israel ...

Candles at a pre-Christmas midnight service held in the Park Temple Methodist Church here on Dec. 25 were lit from a master candle brought to the church by its minister, the Rev, John H. Hanger, from ...

The Talmud (Shabbat 21b) prescribes lighting Chanukah candles at twilight, which was the ideal time for maximizing pirsumei nisa (publicizing the Chanukah miracle) in the pre-modern era. People ...

Hanukkah runs Dec. 7 to Dec. 15, 2023. Since the Hanukkah miracle involved oil, it's customary to serve foods fried in oil. Hanukkah is the most widely used spelling, while Chanukah is more ...