Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As daylight faded on a cool evening in Old Town Square, hundreds of families and children gathered Dec. 21 for Fort Collins’ ...

Remarks delivered at the Polish Embassy Chanukah party, December 16, 2025 — a joint celebration with the American Jewish Committee. Chanukah is the holiday of Jewish military power reclaiming ...

Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights. While not as overtly holy a Jewish holiday as Passover or Yom Kippur, Hanukkah has been embraced by the Western world as an often blue-and-white answer to ...

Synopsis: Perek Ba’meh Madlikin in Gemara (Shabbos 21b) refers to ner ish u’beito when teaching the requirements about lighting candles for Chanukah. Rambam (Hilchot Chanukah 4:1-2) rules that each ...

Rabbi Yosef Wolvovsky said every candle in the menorah represents the souls of those present. “What we are doing tonight is not just lighting the menorah, we are lighting our internal candles,” ...

Market Street will host Chabad of The Woodlands for its 13th annual Grand Chanukah Celebration and Menorah Lighting in December. Celebrated for centuries, the Jewish holiday celebrates the recovery of ...

Answer: Though most of our readership resides in locales where there is relative calm and tranquility that enables the practice of our mitzvot, there still are places in the world, even today, where ...

Mount Airy’s Annual Chanukah Menorah lighting at the Train Station Rail Yard, Thursday December 7, 2023 included latkes and other treats face painting, hot drinks, music, and a fire juggler. Dec. 7, ...

From candle-lighting and prayer to concerts and laser light shows, the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia ensured a memorable Chanukah for all. Throughout the holiday, the Jewish Federation’s ...