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Hanukkah is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one ...

Father Tom Hartman and I created an annual winter custom that sharpened our interfaith instincts. Tommy wrote the Hanukkah ...

With the Hanukah miracle revolving around oil, it is customary to celebrate the holiday by eating foods fried in oil.

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The Conversation illuminates how Hanukkah's cultural evolution parallels Christmas, as both have adapted significantly in ...

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To Lerman, who has served as the synagogue's rabbi since 2014, the ordeal has reinforced themes familiar to Hanukkah, the ...

The menorah belongs at the window table, facing out. Two thousand years ago, this obligation was named: Pirsumei Nisa, ...

The tradition is a reminder of what Jewish practice calls the “miracle of the oil” — a story from later rabbinic tradition commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the ...

Settler groups are preparing to carry out large-scale incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque next Sunday, coinciding with the Jewish ...

Tri-Valley Cultural Jews will host a family-friendly Hanukkah celebration in Castro Valley from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 13.