Whereas Christmas marks the birth of Jesus, Hanukkah, which was celebrated for centuries before Jesus was born, commemorates ...

Many Jews also celebrate the holiday around the table at home, especially with kids eager to play games, win chocolate coins and get presents. Hanukkah is not a holiday to sit all day in synagogue ...

(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, 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 this year begins Dec. 25, coinciding with Christmas Day for the first time since 2005. It’s the ...

After that, Baum has no recollection of celebrating Hanukkah in Germany or in the home where he and 27 other children lived after arriving in England on the Kindertransport. A German word meaning ...

Hanukkah is a tradition older than Christmas, one that commemorates an event that occurred about 2,200 years ago. But 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 ...

Interfaith couple Eric and Lauren Wessinger, who also live in Fort Worth, decided to raise their children, now teenagers, as ...

Wise and Max Lilienthal of Cincinnati, popularized the once-obscure Hanukkah holiday by emphasizing games and activities they knew children would enjoy. But Robyn Frisch, a Philadelphia-based ...