Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights. While not as overtly holy a Jewish holiday as Passover or Yom Kippur, Hanukkah has been embraced by the Western world as an often blue-and-white answer to ...

How is Hanukkah celebrated? Learn the history of the most common Hanukkah traditions that make up the Festival of Lights.

The menorah, a symbol of hope, resilience, and faith, holds a prominent place in Jewish tradition. Its flickering flames during Hanukkah represent the miracle of light that lasted eight days, ...

A friend told me recently that prayer is about rejecting the state of the world as it is. She meant this in a positive way. When we pray, we express a yearning for a better reality, a belief that the ...

Jews around the globe lit the first of eight candles on Wednesday and came together to celebrate and reflect on their history. The first candle of Hanukkah was lit by rabbis at the Western Wall in ...

Lighting the menorah candles is one of the most common Hanukkah traditions. Even if you don’t know much about the Jewish religion, you probably recognize the candelabras that appear in windows every ...

Nessim Bouskila (seated first from right) with his IDF comrades in 1948. https://jewishjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/speaker/post-377454.mp3?cb=1733388010.mp3 With ...

On the first night of Hanukkah, which comes two months into the Israel-Hamas war, demonstrators mourned the Israelis and Palestinians who had been killed. By Claire Fahy Hundreds of people gathered in ...