Two boys from culturally and economically different backgrounds become friends during the California gold rush of 1849 ...

The Associated Press Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of ...

The glow from Christmas tree bulbs will shine with the brightness of menorah candles on Wednesday.

Known as the Festival of Lights, the holiday commemorates the rise of the Jewish people against ancient Greek-Syrian ...

Omaha's Jewish pioneers might have had their first organized Hanukkah observance in 1867, the first year for services, while ...

Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day, only the fourth time that’s happened ...

Rabbi Moshe Hauer, executive vice president of the Orthodox Union, acknowledged that many Jews may be feeling anxious heading ...

Over the long centuries, the menorah’s candles have shone into the recesses of our souls, illuminating the darkest times with ...

Celebrating both holidays at once poses challenges for mixed-faith couples; break out the Yamaclaus ...

Rabbi Irvin Brandwein sees Hanukkah as a time when the Jewish people reaffirm “a stubborn refusal to assimilate or vanish” from the world. The rabbinically ordained festival commemorates resistance by ...

Hanukkah, the “Festival of Lights,” is among the most modern of the worldwide Jewish festivals, being only about 2,500 years ...

Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day, which has only happened four times since 1900. For some rabbis, the intersection of the two religious holidays ...