In 2024, Hanukkah begins at sundown on Wednesday, Dec. 25, and ends at sundown on Thursday, Jan. 2. How many days is Hanukkah? Hanukkah lasts for eight days. What is Hanukkah, and why is it ...

As a community, we do not merely recount history, we seek to make it relevant and resonant for our children and grandchildren. In this sense, the practice of commemorating Hanukkah is a form of ...

(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST) As has become customary, I am going to repeat a theme that I write about every year: how we should use Hanukkah to teach children about ...

Hanukkah is not a holiday to sit all day in synagogue and pray. It’s more of a holiday to eat potato pancakes and jelly doughnuts, listen to comedian Adam Sandler’s Hanukkah song, light candles each ...

For the first time since 2005, the first night of Hanukkah will fall on the same day as Christmas. The two winter holidays converge an average of five times a century, according to Rabbi Joseph ...

And that is exactly what she wanted to shield her children from feeling when she ... Simis Elementary School to talk about the history of Hanukkah. He’d bring in a menorah for the class to ...

Hanukkah is familiarly known as a celebration ... George Washington blessed the community: “May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the ...

HE DONATED THIS DREIDEL TO GIVE KIDS A HANUKKAH SPIRITED, INTERACTIVE ACTIVITY AS A PART OF SINAI HOSPITAL’S ART THERAPY PROGRAM. THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE COOLEST THINGS THAT HAS EVER FALLEN IN ...