On Dec. 25 a ceremony to light the National Menorah takes place on the National Mall to kick off Hanukkah celebrations.

U.S. officials and religious leaders spoke about peace and hope at the National Menorah Lighting hosted in front of the White ...

The Maccabees were also exhausted, but they didn’t give up,” Rabbi Levi Shemtov, who organizes the event, told JNS.

On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched candelabra. Watch the lighting ceremony at 4 p.m. EST in our player ...

Each year, thousands of people gather in Washington, D.C. to kick off the start of Hanukkah with the annual lighting ceremony ...

The National Menorah was lit on the White House Ellipse in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, December 25th, in an amazingly ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Several hundred people gathered in D.C. on the night of Hanukkah for the annual National Menorah Lighting.

The tradition of building up to lighting eight oil lamps (plus one shamash, or servitor) over the Hanukkah period began in ...

Thousands gathered on The Ellipse to witness the lighting of the National Menorah, an event celebrated annually since 1979. The ceremony featured a touching moment when a woman met her bone marrow ...

People gathered at Independence Mall to celebrate the 50th anniversary of what organizers say was the first public menorah ...

Thousands gathered in D.C. on Wednesday for the National Menorah Lighting ceremony — an annual event hosted in front of the ...