Here's a Hanukkah playlist for 2024, featuring eight new songs, one for each of the eight days of the holiday. See Billboard's picks.

Songs like “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” or “White Christmas.” But as we all know Christmas isn’t the only important celebration when the calendar year ends. For many, Hanukkah is an ...

Hanukkah is not a holiday to sit all day in synagogue and pray. It’s more of a holiday to eat potato pancakes and jelly doughnuts, listen to comedian Adam Sandler’s Hanukkah song, light candles each ...

As of sundown on Wednesday (Dec. 25), Hanukkah 2024 was in full swing — bringing with it eight straight days of family, prayers, candle-lighting and, yes, music. The canon of songs associated ...

Sharing reflections on experiencing resilience and unity in Israel during my first Hanukkah, highlighting the spirit of hope ...

Because Judaism uses a modified lunar calendar, rather than the familiar solar calendar, the secular dates of Hanukkah vary from year to year.

Today, you can buy cards and candles in neighborhood stores, and Hanukkah songs are played on the radio along with Christmas carols. So, what is the original significance of Hanukkah? Why and when ...

“It was hard to teach catchy and fun Hanukkah songs to my students,” she says. “Then along came Adam Sandler who created a slightly irreverent Hanukkah song. I got hooked on it immediatel ...

While Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is considered a minor holiday in terms of religious significance, it carries an important message during a time of celebration. It also has food ...

Yo La Tengo will be performing each night of Hanukkah from Dec. 25 to Jan. 1, 2025, and each night will be different. The band doesn’t repeat songs throughout the run, and each night has a ...