The Talmud teaches us the lights of Hanukkah should burn till there are no pedestrians who are going to the market. It’s not ...

The tradition of building up to lighting eight oil lamps (plus one shamash, or servitor) over the Hanukkah period began in ...

Hanukkah is one of the most famous holidays in the Jewish calendar, but here are facts about the Festival of Lights that you ...

In fact, the second book of Maccabees (which is not in our Bible but was preserved by the ... joining together to make one big flame. But the menorah teaches us that it is better and enough ...

Hanukkah can begin as early as Nov. 28 or as late as Dec. 27. The holiday is based on the Hebrew calendar and always falls on ...

You could say the shape is almost biblical. The Via Maris Trace menorah has become a contemporary classic. The candelabra shape is traditional, but the steel tube design comes in great colors like ...

The Island’s Jewish communities gathered the past several days to reflect on and celebrate the season of light during a ...

On Wednesday morning, extremist settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque through the Mughrabi Gate, under heavy protection from ...

Families turned out on a cool winter night to celebrate the beginning of Hanukkah with a community menorah lighting Wednesday ...

The national menorah lit in Washington ... The Books of the Maccabees are not included in the Jewish biblical canon, and the Babylonian Talmud only briefly explains the holiday's origins, citing ...

It is hard to believe that I am writing again, while sitting shiva once again, this time for my older sister (by six years) who died on Shabbat, parshat vayishlach. Despite the geographic distance ...

Menorahs Around the Globe at the Museum at Eldridge Street (photos Isabella Segalovich/Hyperallergic) The Book of Judith is not in the Hebrew Bible — like the Books of Maccabees, it was ...