In Hebrew, Hanukkah means “dedication.” The holiday marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem nearly 2,200 years ago.

I’ve always assumed my neighbors knew the additional mental and emotional gymnastics required to be Jewish in a culture ...

As Jewish communities around Connecticut prepare for the holiday, they share in the theme of rededicating themselves to being ...

In 2026, the Holocaust Museum of Greece will open in Thessaloniki beside the Old Railway Station—the exact site from which ...

The eight-day festival of lights, which begins this year on Sunday night, December 14, and will be celebrated through Monday, ...

The eight-day festival of lights, which begins this year on Sunday night, December 14, and will be celebrated through Monday, ...

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What is starting to look like a hate-crimes hoax in Vermont is being used to further increase the ways anti-Zionism seeks to divide the Jewish world against itself and society against the Jews,” ...

After one of the band members, Liam O’Hanna, was hit with a terrorism charge for displaying a Hezbollah flag at another ...

The festival of lights is around the corner and to celebrate its second night, the Chabad Jewish Center of Skagit County will ...

As long as Jews have been Jews, from God’s call to Abraham in Genesis chapter 12, our identity has been measured by way of ...

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight ...