Since at least one of the eight days of Hanukkah falls on Shabbat, and we have to, then, light two sets of candles, I would like to explain the difference between them and see what lessons we may ...

(credit: RAQUEL GUERTZENSTEIN FROHLICH) Hanukkah, as explained by The HC’s Gabi Burman, is an eight-day Jewish holiday that commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during ...

Many of us grew up with a straightforward Hanukkah story ... and ideology,” the scholar and rabbi Adin Steinsaltz once explained in an interview with one of us. The Maccabees were the zealots ...

For the first time since 2005, the first night of Hanukkah starts on Christmas Day. Rabbi Peter Schaktman at Temple Emanu-El in Utica explained that for the Jewish people, “... Hanukkah starts ...

On Thursday, as the sun set behind the Clearwater Memorial Causeway Bridge, Clearwater Mayor Bruce Rector lit the first candle of a cookie-themed menorah, symbolizing the beginning of the eight-day ...

HOLIDAY AND HOW YOU CAN CELEBRATE THE WORD HANUKKAH ACTUALLY MEANS TO REDEDICATE OR TO INAUGURATE. RABBI DOVID ZIGLER AND HIS WIFE, REBBETZIN CHANA ZIEGLER, ARE THE FOUNDERS AND SPIRITUAL LEADERS ...

“My menorah holds a special place.” She explained, however, that she decorates more for Christmas than Hanukkah. She described a ceramic tree with “little lights in it” from her paternal ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Thursday marks the first day and second night of Hanukkah. Rabbi Levi Harlig from Chabad of Southern Nevada explained the meaning behind the "Festival of Lights." "The story ...

“Hanukkah comes at the darkest time of the year,” explained Esther Heber, co-director of Chabad Williamsburg, a Jewish outreach group that has hosted the public menorah lighting since 2021.