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

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 national menorah lit in Washington, DC, is 30 feet tall and requires a lift from a cherry picker to light. The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, takes place ...

Steve Fine discusses examples of the seven-branched menorah, referring to one found in a Mishneh Torah from 1470, housed at the National Library in Jerusalem. The chapter “Bet HaBechirah,” on ...

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

The largest Hanukkah menorah in the world is standing at Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petah Tikva. The menorah was placed by the Tikva Umarpe organization, and is made of 25,0000 ...

In an unforgettable and deeply moving moment, the father of kidnapped soldier Bar Kuperstein lit the menorah during a special Hanukkah celebration hosted by the "Hakol Mehalev" organization.

Some 5,000 people attended the annual Chabad lighting of the National Menorah on the Ellipse, south of the White House, on Wednesday night, the first night of Chanukah, according to organizers, who ...

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