He said the community has gathered at Lake Merritt in Oakland for the last 19 years to celebrate Hanukkah. But this isn't the first time they have experienced vandalism during the holiday.

CBS SF Bay Area Hateful messages found during Oakland Hannukah celebration Posted: January 5, 2025 | Last updated: January 5, 2025 The rabbi of Chabad Center for Jewish Life of Oakland says what ...

On January 2, the last day of Hanukkah, the eighth candle is lit ... the Second Temple in Jerusalem from the Seleucid Empire, the Maccabees found there was only a small flask of pure olive oil ...

Hanukkah is also called the Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication and Feast of the Maccabees. Hanukkah is not the Jewish version of Christmas, but often children receive gifts, especially in ...

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

This may explain why the Talmudic sages excluded the story of the Maccabees’ triumph, culminating in the holiday of Hanukkah, from the Judaic canon (1 Maccabees 4:59). Our tradition associates Jewish ...

Advertisement While Hanukkah commemorates the miracle of oil that lasted for eight days, it also celebrates the miraculous victory of a small rag-tag group of Jews, known as the Maccabees ...

Miraculously, that one-day supply lasted eight days until new oil could be prepared, and from that, the eight days of Hanukkah are celebrated to this day. The rebellious spirit of the Maccabees ...

Wednesday was the first day of 2025 and the last day of Hanukkah, and Yo La Tengo wrapped up this year’s celebration residency at Bowery Ballroom with a number of old friends. And family.

The North Shore Synagogue, the Syosset-Woodbury Chamber of Commerce and community members lit the community menorah on Dec. 25 to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah. “As the sun set upon ...