Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape ...

The lamp depicts Jewish motifs from a time when ... According to the statement, the discovery was made public for Hanukkah, a Jewish holiday commemorating a miracle in which a single jar of ...

When Ari [Tishby’s son] asked her why being Jewish is important, her answer was simple and powerful: because it brings her joy, and she wants to share it with others. I hope this Hanukkah series ...

This is the story ... Hannukah is an annual Jewish festival which lasts eight days and is also known as the Festival of Lights, or the Feast of Dedication. During Hanukkah Jews light a nine-branched ...

While not regarded as one of the major Jewish holidays, Hanukkah over time has become one of the most practiced festivals for Jews in North America. It is when Jewish identity is most likely to be ...

The Hanukkah menorah, or hanukkiah, is one of the religious objects most commonly found in the Jewish home. The tradition of building up to lighting eight oil lamps (plus one shamash, or servitor ...

Hanukkah lamp, Italy (19th century) (photo via the Jewish Museum) What do we celebrate on Hanukkah? After quickly mentioning the miraculous jar of temple oil that burned for eight days ...

As the island's Jewish residents prepare for the ... always dispels the darkness around us." Jews observe Hanukkah by lighting a menorah lamp every night for eight nights, representing the ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Rabbi Irvin Brandwein sees Hanukkah as a time when the Jewish people reaffirm “a stubborn refusal to assimilate or vanish” from the world. The rabbinically ordained festival ...