Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Known as the Festival of Lights, the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah celebrates the rise of the Jewish people against Greek-Syrian ...

The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah commemorates the Maccabees' reclaiming of the Jerusalem Temple from the Syrians/Greeks around 165 B.C.E. Antiochus IV Epiphanes, upon taking control of the city, banned ...

Elina Levinson looks up from the raw potato she’s grating for Hanukkah latkes – also known as potato pancakes – in the kitchen at Wilkes-Barre’s Jewish Community Center. “You know about the oil?” she ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, started Tuesday night, bringing with it the promise of a rich religious tradition -- and rich, delicious food. Like Christmas, with its ...

For several years, a menorah has stood alongside the Christmas tree inside the county courthouse in Missoula, Montana. This year, a local rabbi asked officials to erect a Hanukkah display on the ...