A menorah is lit each night of the holiday The holiday commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during the second century B.C. Although there was only enough oil to keep the ...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Students working to build the “Sanhedrin Trail” in Israel’s Galilee unearthed a 1,400-year-old oil lamp bearing the symbol of the Jerusalem Temple’s menorah ...
BUT THESE SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE CALLED THE MACCABEES, LIKE, FOUGHT BACK FOR LIKE A FEW YEARS AND THEN LIKE THEY WENT TO SEARCH FOR OIL FOR THE MENORAH, THE OIL THEY THOUGHT WOULD LAST ONLY ONE DAY ...
Like thousands of Orthodox Jewish consumers who buy premium olive oil ahead of Hanukkah, David purchased $160 of the stuff only to burn it — in a menorah. Observant Israelis increasingly like to ...