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While a candlestick holds one candle, a candelabra holds many. “Technically a ‘menorah’ has seven branches while a chanukah menorah, or chanukiyah, has nine branches, for eight candles and one shamash ...

The Chanukah events at Judaism's second-holiest site will be held under the slogan, "For the miracles, the mighty deeds and the wars." ...

The chanukiyah, made entirely of cast bronze, is more than 2 meters tall and 2 meters wide (6.5 feet x 6.5 feet), weighs some 2,000 pounds and took seven months to create. This year’s ...

We symbolize this miracle with the lighting of a special kind of menorah called a “Chanukiyah,” which has nine branches as opposed to the seven on a typical menorah. We also acknowledge our resistance ...

That’s why all diets are officially suspended until the last candle sputters out in the chanukiyah (“menorah”) on Jan. 1, the first candle having been kindled after sundown on the previous Wednesday, ...

That’s why all diets are officially suspended until the last candle sputters out in the chanukiyah (“menorah”) on Jan. 1, the first candle having been kindled after sundown on the previous ...

“As each light of the chanukiyah is lit over the next eight evenings, Jewish people around the world will remember the miracle at the heart of Chanukah — a single pot of oil that fed the flame ...

There are plenty of public lightings of the chanukiyah — in the Knesset, on army bases, at the Western Wall. The president and the prime minister travel to significant spots throughout the ...

For the first time in more than 10 years, the Supreme Court has acted on a menorah case. Chabad won the right to light a menorah in Cincinnati’s landmark Fountain Square in the latest round of ...