It is terrifying to contemplate the mysterious existence and extraordinary doings of the Jews. Menorah in the window on the eighth night (credit: AMANDA FIELD) Like the Hanukkah lights ...

It has fallen to every generation of Jews to determine how much openness is necessary, and how much is too much. That's the miracle of Hanukkah. (RNS) — Hanukkah is here, and with it ...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – Jews around the world are marking the start of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, which celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the second century B ...

Indeed, the Greek opposition to Judaism that we mark on Hanukkah was meant to end a few centuries later. This is because Europeans accepted the Jews’ monotheistic religion in the form of ...

Interestingly, we learned from the Filipinos at the Shabbat table that about 90% of Filipino men are circumcised by a mohel, ...

A steady stream of museum visitors counted down to the first night of Hanukkah, take part in community service activities and celebrate their Jewish heritage together.

Del Norte and Curry counties don’t have a large Jewish Community but residents of both Brookings and Crescent City were on ...

Store opens on first night of Hanukkah On the first night of Haunkkah – Wednesday, Dec. 25 – a double celebration was held in ...

The day after the Jewish Herald-Voice published an article about the event, the owner said someone shattered a window at his ...

Members of the Socialist Workers Party, including leaders in the Bay Area, buck the leftist trend with their vocal support of ...

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

It must have been an extraordinary experience when the kohanim in the days of the Hasmoneans suddenly realized that a tiny amount of oil that should have lasted for only one day would last for eight ...