Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights, is an eight-day Jewish festival commemorating the victory of the Maccabees, a ...

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

For 2,500 years, the Jews of Ethiopia Jews/ the Beta Israel community dreamed of Zion. They prayed facing Jerusalem not as a ...

The 10th year of this annual Chanukah lawn decorations display is the biggest yet, spanning two River Hill lawns in Columbia, Maryland.

Friends who aren’t Jewish often tell me how fascinating it is that Chanukah’s eight nights shift each year, while their own ...

Interactive holiday playrooms and immersive theatre performances are becoming fixtures at Toronto synagogues and community centres this Hanukkah season—part of a growing effort to deliver Jewish learn ...

The songs, performed by children and adults, cover the Sabbath and the Jewish holidays, the seasons, family and nature ...

There are nights when nearly 3,000 Jews gather at the Javits Center in Manhattan, supported by 402 challahs, 811 pounds of ...

Events include candlelightings, parties, family-friendly activities, fried treats, artisan and gift fairs, live music and comedy.

The Tel Aviv dinner back in 2014 lacked live music, public transportation and lasagna, but it was wonderful, an organizer ...

The CEO of the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center says the late author, the subject of a new biography, enlightened him about what it ...

A menorah lighting will take place 5:30 p.m. each night, Sunday, Dec. 14 through Sunday, Dec. 21 as Rabbi Matt Eisenberg ...