For eight nights in November or December every year, the Jewish holiday Hanukkah is observed across the world – bringing friends and family together through tradition to commemorate part of Judaism’s ...

The festival of Chanukah commemorates the Maccabees’ victory over the Syrian tyrant Antiochus IV, who had conquered Jerusalem and seized the Temple in his efforts to Hellenize Judea. Resisting ...

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional ...

WASHINGTON — For Washington, D.C. the start of Hanukkah also means the lighting of the 30-foot National Menorah on the Ellipse, in front of the White House. And as of Tuesday afternoon, there is still ...

Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins welcomed Rabbi Velvl Butman, Executive Director of Chabad Lubavitch of Westchester ...