The Jewish festival of Hannukah, which this year runs from 25 December to 2 January, actually has a lot in common with the ...

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 ...

An Orthodox Rabbi and Reform Journalist Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses.” Many of us grew up with a straightforward Hanukkah story. It is a parable of resilience ...

Two December holidays celebrate light and hope, and this year, they begin on the same day.The first day of Hanukkah, a minor ...

Rather, it is instead in the books First and Second Maccabees, which are not considered canonical in Judaism but are deuterocanonical in the Orthodox ... in both Eastern European traditions of giving ...

Hanukkah commemorates the successful Jewish revolt against occupying powers in ancient Jerusalem, said Frances Flannery, a ...

The celebration of Hanukkah should continue in the face of rising antisemitism, Orthodox Union Executive Vice President Rabbi Moshe Hauer said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post last Thursday.