A steady stream of museum visitors counted down to the first night of Hanukkah, take part in community service activities and ...

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

Israeli ambassador to Chile, Gil Artzyeli, posted on social media on December 17 that Moreira’s statements were “clear ...

When Judy Zweig discovered that a precious family heirloom was destroyed after her Pacific Palisades home of 30 years burned ...

(The Conversation) — My earliest religious memory is of our synagogue’s Ner Tamid: the decorative electric lamp that hangs in every sanctuary, above the ark holding the Torah scrolls.

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 ...

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 ...

Jewish Quarter (former ghetto), Spanish Temple ... Under Roman Imperial rule, the menorah, likened to a multi-branch candelabra, became a powerful and representative emblem of Judaism.

But the Jewish holiday, which lasts for eight nights ... and the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem, where a menorah, a candelabra, would be kindled daily," the rabbi explained.

After trouncing the army, the Jewish people began rebuilding their shrine. They later found a small amount of untainted olive oil to light the temple’s menorah — a golden candelabra with seven ...

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 ...