Throughout the eight days of Hanukkah, Jewish families like mine celebrate by eating latkes (fried potato pancakes) and sufganiyot (fried jelly doughnuts). Notice a theme? Often, traditional ...

Some say that “maccabee” was the battle cry of the Jewish people in 165 B.C. What are some Hanukkah traditions? Gift-giving isn’t a traditional part of Hanukkah. The only traditional ...

As my girls have grown, my husband and I have always looked to make it fun and easy for them to participate in traditional Hanukkah celebrations in age-appropriate ways. All of the activities ...

Hanukkah (or Chanukah ... who wanted to restore Jewish religious practices and traditions, are said to have fought the powerful Syrian-Greek army over the course of three years.

‘It is an object with a standard set of rules to make it fit for the purpose of celebrating the Jewish Hanukkah.’ Voss-Lloyd has united the contemporary with the traditional in his design crafted from ...

The postal service has issued Hanukkah stamps since 1996, more than three decades after it first started issuing Christmas stamps. Previous versions have drawn on traditional Jewish art forms ...

“I often encourage them to create a Jewish space of the Hanukkah menorah and latkes and all of that traditional space at home, before going out to the in-laws to celebrate their tradition of a ...

Hanukkah commemorates a story that is said to have happened in the second century BC when the Seleucid Empire tried to force the Jewish people to adopt Greek traditions and beliefs. Despite being ...