Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The peak of this year's holiday season is fast approaching. Almost halfway through the countdown to Christmas, a popular Jewish ...

Hanukkah begins on the 25th of the month of Kislev, which corresponds to November-December in the Hebrew calendar. This date is different each year in the Gregorian calendar that is widely used across ...

Let’s just get this out of the way first: Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas. But it is a festive winter holiday. While Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is considered a minor holiday in terms of ...

WASHINGTON — The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, also known as the "Festival of Lights," begins this weekend. Hanukkah commemorates the re-dedication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem after a small group ...

TAMPA, Fla. — The holiday season is upon us and that includes the eight-day Jewish holiday Hanukkah, known as the Festival of Lights. This holiday commemorates the rededication during the second ...

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional ...

There’s a uniqueness to Hanukkah this year, as candles will be lit starting in 2024 and ending in 2025. The message could not be clearer for all of us: to both end and start the year with light. How ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The COVID-19 pandemic may have forced folks from Chabad Lubavitch of Utah to hold their menorah car celebration outdoors, but it is not what is keeping them there. "We have a ...

What is the story of Hanukkah and why does it last for eight days? Hanukkah, or Chanukah, celebrates the the Maccabean Revolt against the Syrian-Greek army. In the second century B.C., the Holy Land ...

Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday that lasts for eight nights. But many people might not know the rich history and traditions that go along with the annual observance known as the "Festival of Lights." ...