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

Nearly 100 people braved a cold, foggy Tehachapi night Monday for a public menorah lighting celebrating the sixth night of ...

The eight-night feast of Hanukkah started on Christmas day—a special occurrence last witnessed in 2005. Jews across town ...

The Talmud teaches us the lights of Hanukkah should burn till there are no pedestrians who are going to the market. It’s not ...

The Talmud says that on Hanukkah, we celebrate the miracle of the oil. Secularists claim the essence of Hanukkah is to ...

In the Chanukah story, our people remained inspired and on a spiritual high all that year. The light of the menorah never dimmed, and their enthusiasm never waned. When the sages saw this, they ruled ...

Jews began their eight-day-long festival of lights, called Hanukkah or Chanukah, on the evening of December 25, with prayers ...

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The Talmud teaches us to place the menorah in the window to “publicize ... Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses.” ...

There was a major shift in the world of Torah scholarship 2,200 years ago. A new light was born in response to the Greeks' ...