A single candle can make a room feel safer, warmer, and more alive than a bright overhead bulb. That’s strange when you think about it. The candle ...

About a dozen people gathered at Pinecrest in Orange to light the menorah placed outside of Lao Sze Chuan on the fifth night of Chanukah on Dec. 18. Rabbi Matt Cohen of Temple Emanu El in Orange led ...

Ilana Isakov Katz, vice chair of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s board of trustees, said lighting a menorah during Chanukah, gathered with friends and family, “should never be an act of courage.” ...

A malfunctioning electric menorah started a fire in a West Hempstead house on Friday afternoon, leaving the home uninhabitable and prompting a response from four different departments, according to ...

Amid the bitter cold on Tuesday evening, 100 or so neighbors — many of them clutching tiny cups of hot chocolate, holding dogs on leashes, or chasing after small children — gathered in Harlem’s tiny ...

There is a crucial element of Hanukkah that cannot be overlooked, Rabba Rori Picker Neiss said during a visit to Reading this week. Light. “As the days reach the shortest, as the nights grow long, ...

Usually, Scott Yonover opts to light the candles of the menorah at his Streeterville home. But this Hanukkah, after yet another fatal attack on the Jewish community, the 59-year-old found himself ...

Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein has been in Evanston for more than 40 years, and has presided over many menorah lightings downtown. But the executive director of Evanston Chabad had something else on his mind ...

Last week, the Chronicle asked its readers in an online poll the following question: “Do you display your menorah in a window to publicize the miracle (pirsumei nis)?” Of the 234 people who responded, ...

TREATED IN HOSPITALS AFTER SUNDAY'S MASSACRE, 10 OF THEM IN CRITICAL CONDITION. THIS DEVISTATING SHOOTING IS IN THE MINDS OF OUR JEWISH COMMUNITY HERE IN VERMONT... AND IS LEADING OFFICIALS TO RAMP UP ...

A menorah in a Jackson Heights park was vandalized — sparking outrage in the Queens neighborhood that’s been rattled by repeated incidents of antisemitic graffiti, local pols and Jewish leaders said.

A history-making menorah — which made its debut under former President Biden — is not on display as part of the Trump White House’s annual holiday decor this year. The candelabra — created by the ...