In 2024, Hanukkah begins at sundown on Wednesday, Dec. 25, and ends at sundown on Thursday, Jan. 2. Hanukkah lasts for eight days. Hanukkah is the festival of lights, and means "dedication" in Hebrew.

Next week, we'll get a rare cultural confluence: the first night of Hanukkah and Christmas Day coincide for only the fifth time in a century. The side-by-side comparison gives American Jews an ...

It is not a coincidence that Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, which Jews around the world are celebrating this week, occurs during the darkest time of the year. It is only against the darkness ...

Families around the world brought their menorahs out this week to kick of Hanukkah which this year, in a rare occurrence, began on Christmas Day. From Gwyneth Paltrow and Mila Kunis who teamed up ...

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is a Jewish holiday celebrating the defeat of the Syrian Greeks who oppressed the religious freedom of Judaism and the rededication of the Second Temple in ...

The first night of Hanukkah was a joyous one in Brooklyn, as hundreds of people from all over the country gathered to light the borough’s largest menorah in Grand Army Plaza. It was a cold night ...

Celebrating Hanukkah in Israel this year carries profound significance as the nation grapples with the ongoing stress and trauma of war. The Festival of Lights commemorates the victory of a group ...

Let’s just get this out of the way first: Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas. But it is a festive winter holiday. While Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is considered a minor holiday in terms ...

The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah may not receive quite the same level of attention as Christmas. But as Adam Sandler pointed out in his hit “Hanukkah Song,” the holiday, which starts this year ...

Henry Baum, 97, doesn’t remember much about Germany being he was only a boy when his mother put him on the Kindertransport in order to escape the atrocities Jewish people were facing during the ...

Hanukkah, which commemorates a Jewish military victory in Jerusalem some 2,200 years ago, usually falls in December, and given Christmas’ claim on the 25th, the two can occur within weeks or ...