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.

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 ...

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 ...

Jewish devotees of the New York Times’ game Strands came in for a shock on Sunday, when the day’s puzzle offered up a Hanukkah theme — and then seemed to botch it. Strands is a word-search ...

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 ...

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, For decades, American Jews have celebrated Hanukkah in ways that feel almost the opposite of its original meaning. Living now in the shadow of ...

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 ...