Leah Kotler’s menorah was her grandon's most prized family heirloom. When his Altadena home burned in the Eaton Fire, he thought it was gone.

Bobby Dweck, a lifelong Brooklynite, had a miracle of his own on Wednesday night as he headed to his first lighting of Brooklyn’s largest menorah.

In exile, Hanukkah became a holiday of hope for Jews who dreamt of returning home, Menorah in hand.

According to the Talmud, Chanukah celebrates the miracle of that oil lasting eight days. But the greater significance remains the Jewish community’s refusal to bend and disappear, or to hide.

From the genocide of the Nazis to the atrocities of Hamas, the Hanukkah Menorah’s lights are kindled, and Judea lives on.

That doesn’t totally excuse the Hanukkah gaffes. The holiday celebrates a long-ago miracle — when a small jar of oil in the ancient temple in Jerusalem somehow powered a menorah for eight nights.

Second-annual Miracle of Light Hanukkah festival expands to downtown Franklin square On Monday evening, bring your own menorah to light at the Miracle of Light festival.

Jews throughout the world are celebrating Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, by lighting candles on a unique, eight-branched candelabra, the menorah.

To commemorate this miracle and their freedom from foreign occupation, Jewish sages declared an eight-day holiday to be celebrated each year. The Hanukkah menorah is intended not to light the ...

The menorah on the first night of Hanukkah. Photo by Erica Price “We are hoping, and we’re praying that we experience a miracle at this time, for the hostages … that they be released to light, and ...