Rabbi Avremel Blesofsky, chabad rabbi in Iowa City, lights the flames on the menorah during a public menorah lighting outside of Ginsberg Jewelers in southeast Cedar Rapids on Dec. 12, 2023.

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 ...

A gathering to mark the “Festival of Lights” lit up Fifth Street on Tuesday as dozens gathered to light a menorah and catch gelt from Loveland Fire Rescue Authority’s tower crane engine.

For several years, a menorah has stood alongside the Christmas tree inside the county courthouse in Missoula, Mont. This year, a local rabbi asked officials to erect a Hanukkah display on the ...

Harvard President Claudine Gay (2nd L) attends a menorah lighting ceremony on the seventh night of Hanukkah with the University's Jewish community on December 13, 2023, in Harvard Yard, Cambridge ...

The statement reads in part, “The Jewish Community of the Virginia Peninsula is shocked and alarmed at LoveLight Placemaking’s decision to cancel a menorah lighting scheduled for the Second ...

LOWELL — For the first time in Lowell’s history, community members came together outside City Hall for a public lighting of the menorah, with the stated goal to celebrate the power of light o… ...

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff led the menorah lighting at last year's Hanukkah party, which Biden called a White House tradition that was newly "a family tradition" as well.

Plans called for lighting the menorah on Friday night at Congregation Ahavath Torah, said Miriam Stiefel, a spokeswoman for ...

The evening of Dec. 25, large crowds are expected in downtown Detroit for Chabad's 14th annual lighting of a tall Hanukkah menorah at Campus Martius on the corner of Cadillac Square and Woodward.

This holiday season, a proposal to light a menorah at a Williamsburg, Virginia, community celebration turned into a Festivus-style "airing of grievances" -- with a side of antisemitism for good ...

Ahead of Thursday night’s menorah lighting to celebrate Hanukkah, the Lawrence rabbi helping to lead the celebration said the event — symbolizing the idea of light over darkness — was ...