The Talmud teaches us the lights of Hanukkah should burn till there are no pedestrians who are going to the market. It’s not ...

The Jewish festival of Hannukah, which this year runs from 25 December to 2 January, actually has a lot in common with the ...

Hanukkah is one of the most famous holidays in the Jewish calendar, but here are facts about the Festival of Lights that you ...

The tradition of building up to lighting eight oil lamps (plus one shamash, or servitor) over the Hanukkah period began in the 2nd century CE.

The village was one of the first in the area besides Chicago, in the mid-1980s, to start public menorah lightings for Hanukkah, according to Rabbi Yochanan Posner of Lubavitch Chabad in Skokie.

A surfboard menorah was lit at sundown on Sunday, Dec. 29, representing the fifth night of Hanukkah and a public statement of Jewish pride and perseverance in the face of many challenges.

Other lesser-known biblical Jewish holidays ... the phenomenon became known as "Thanksgivukkah" complete with turkey-shaped menorahs playfully dubbed "menurkeys." The next Thanksgivukkah will ...