In 2024, Hanukkah begins at sundown on Dec. 25 and is celebrated until the last night on Thursday, Jan. 2. Hanukkah (alternately spelled Chanukah), means "dedication" in Hebrew, and commemorates the ...

My backyard always seems like the perfect setting to build a sukkah. On the southern side of the garden, plum, apple and cherry trees provide an inviting setting and a nearby ring of protective shade ...

As I stood checking the set up for our Chanukiyah at Waddesdon Manor, the full impact of what we were doing as SBJC (the Jewish community in Buckinghamshire and Herts) became clear. The 2021 census in ...

The festival of Chanukah, an eight-day celebration commemorating the rebellion of the Jews under the leadership of Judah Maccabee against the Syrian King Antiochus IV, who sought to suppress the ...

Recently, while driving from Great Barrington to Stockbridge, another car went to pass me. I was in the narrow stretch heading north after passing Windy Hill Farm. I was driving the speed limit and ...

VINELAND – Main Street Vineland and the Jewish Federation of Cumberland, Salem & Gloucester Counties invite the community to celebrate Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, at a Chanukah menorah ...

The biblical and ecological meanings of the menorah inform everything spiritually and politically powerful about Chanukah. A little bit of knowledge about seasons and harvests can enrich everyone’s ...

I've lived in Winnipeg most of my life and I tell people, it's not the cold or the snow that gets me down in the winter time. It's the darkness. It's the sun setting early — by 4:30 these days! — that ...

7-foot-tall candelabrum at a McDonald's has become a photo op in Manaus, BrazilMarcus Gilban A large menorah at a McDonald’s branch has become the only Hanukkah symbol in the streets of Brazil’s ...

Now that the winter solstice celebrations are done, we head into an amazing celebration of Chanukah. B.C. Premier John Horgan issued the following statement in celebration of the start of Chanukah: ...

Main Street Vineland will join the Jewish Federation of Cumberland, Salem and Gloucester Counties in the celebration of Hanukkah — the Jewish “Festival of Lights” — with a menorah lighting on the 600 ...