Hanukkah is coming the evening of Thursday, December 7, 2023! The Festival of Lights is a joyous time of year for the Jewish community and one of the most famous of their celebrations in the Western ...
A dreidel is a spinning top with four sides, each inscribed with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The Hebrew letters inscribed on a dreidel are a Nun, Gimel, Hay or Chai, and Shin. The letters form an ...
Hanukkah, one of the most popular Jewish religious observances, is here. While Christians celebrate Christmas every year on Dec. 25, Jews can celebrate Hanukkah as early as November because Jewish ...
Jewish communities throughout Michigan are preparing to celebrate Hanukkah, the festival of lights, which gets underway this weekend. The eight-day Jewish festival honors a miracle amid the ...
Rabbi: We know what it means when the machinery of the state begins to treat people as categories instead of as sacred human beings. Karl Merton Ferron TNS Each year on Hanukkah, Jewish-Americans ...
The soft glow of candle light on the faces of the Temple Beth El’s congregation during Hanukkah is Rabbi Mark Miller’s favorite sight. Rabbi Miller, 56, will lead a ceremony Sunday evening to mark the ...
The evening before the first night of Hanukkah, a several-foot-long blow-up menorah glowed in corner of the dance floor inside a downtown Portland bar. Electronic music weaving Hebrew songs and Middle ...
Jimmy Carter was the first president to recognize Hanukkah with a menorah lighting in 1979. The first official White House Hanukkah party took place in 2001, hosted by George W. Bush. Presidents ...