The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah ... Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a ...

Today, Jews light the menorah, a candelabra with eight candles – and one “helper” candle, called a shamas – to remember the ...

Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights ... at their dining table near the branched candelabra called a menorah, in Teaneck, N.J., on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. Hanukkah and Christmas coincide ...

On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multi-branched candelabra ... a small group of Jewish fighters liberated ...

The date is always the same on the Hebrew or Jewish calendar because it is timed ... including dreidel and chocolate coins. A menorah is a candelabra with eight branches, one for each of the ...

A small Jewish army called the Maccabees led a rebellion against the Greeks and won. When they returned to the Temple to relight the ritual menorah or candelabra, they found only enough oil to ...

And that's why Jewish people light a candle each night on a menorah - a sort of candelabra - for all eight days of the holiday. The candle-lighting recognizes the miracle of the oil lasting eight ...

In response, an intrepid Jewish family, the Maccabees ... long enough to find more oil to keep the candelabra glowing. The Talmud teaches us to place the menorah in the window to “publicize ...

On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched candelabra ... a small group of Jewish fighters liberated ...