It was after Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek skipped city hall’s traditional menorah lighting marking the Jewish festival of ...

The Suisun City Council voted this week to accept a $55,000 grant from California Forever to help pay for community events in fiscal year 2025-26. California Forever pledged the funds earlier this ...

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.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Project Friendship hosted a menorah lighting event at Fourth Street Live on the fifth night of Hanukkah on Sunday, and a Louisville celebrity was called upon to light the menorah.

Skokie held a Hanukkah menorah lighting Dec. 26. One rabbi said Skokie was one of the first municipalities in Illinois, besides Chicago, to start holding public menorah lightings in the mid-1980s.

Menorah lighting for Hanukkah in Henrietta. Posted: December 27, 2024 | Last updated: June 28, 2025. The second night of Hanukkah was celebrated Thursday and various Menorah lightings took place ...

Kansas City is spreading the light of Hanukkah in a big way, marking the third consecutive year of public celebrations with a menorah lighting at City Hall.The event took place Thursday evening ...

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 ...

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.

rabbi mendel katsman tells me this is the 50th anniversary anniversary of lighting the menorah in a public square, making it more significant. MILFORD BANNER SHALOM BENKELMAN.

Menorah Lighting to Kick off Hanukkah. Posted: December 26, 2024 | Last updated: March 6, 2025. this holiday was created to bring that light specifically in times of darkness and that holding ...

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 ...