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Soldiers light their Chanukiot on their tanks.
MK Yair Lapid join the Jordanians, the PA and Hamas in condemning the march.
Every talks about the light, but what about the olives?
Ari Fuld uncovers and explores the real miracle and lessons of Chanukah.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Shattered Hanukkah menorah stationed at East 93rd Street and 2nd Avenue marks the second holiday attack that occurred at the same center.
By Vera Kessler
Every Hebrew month has its own special energy. Rebbetzin Amit Yaghoubi talks about the power of the month of Kislev, the significance of the 8 days of Chanukah, and gives us an easy way to bring miracles into our lives.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, hello #Chanukah!
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"This light is a strong societal symbol against hatred," said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Rabbi Lord Sacks discuss the hidden story of Chanukah.
By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Nechamy Simon of the Teaneck Chabad House gives an amazing, in-depth interview about the kabbalistic aspects of the holiday of Hanukkah, including the dreidel, the lighting of the Hanukkah menorah, and the darkness associated with this time of year.
The most common name associated with Hanukkah is Or – 38,707.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Chanukiot have previously been lit in the White House, but this is the first time one has been included as part of an official display.
By JNi.Media
Strangely enough, the Knesset legislation known as the Aliyah Day Act 5776-2016 states that on the 7th of Cheshvan the country will celebrate the Israelites' entrance into the Land of Israel on the 10th of Nissan.
The Netzach Yehuda Battalion’s Chanukah candle lighting ceremony Wednesday was held near Beit-El.
If you want to enhance your Chanukah evenings - turn off the lights and gaze at the Chanukah candles...
The walls of the Old City of Jerusalem are lit up for Chanukah.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“On many occasions, we have to distribute other types of items related to Judaism, which the residents of these countries have no way of getting,” said Yad L’Achim president Rabbi Shmuel Lifschitz.
"The candle is intact, a rather rare phenomenon.”
The organizers are ushering in a “sense of normalcy and joy” in bringing back holiday programming to communities all across Israel.
Chanukah always falls on the darkest time of the year, and not by chance. There are two types of darkness in this world. How to recognize darkness and how it affects us? Tuvi Ezra explains why the battle of Maccabees must be won.
Chabad Rabbi Levi Druchman lights the first candle of the menorah at EXPO 2020, in a ceremony attended by local leaders, businesspeople, Jewish residents of the UAE and tourists from around the world.
Ari Fuld uncovers and explores the real miracle and lessons of Chanukah.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Herzog’s visit to Hebron is the first of many ceremonies he will be attending throughout the country in honor of the Chanukkah celebrations.
Did George Lucas base the Star Wars saga of light vs. darkness and freedom vs. empire on the Judean Revolt against Rome? Or the story of Hannukah?
Herzliya Mayor Moshe Fadlon deserves a bunch of kudos for his municipality's all-out Chanukah celebrations.
No Kamala, Chanukah is not about Tikun Olam and McLightly Light.
By Israel Hayom
“Who would have believed that peace would come to our home in such a glorious way? It is a Hanukkah miracle,” says Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The occupation state ... is exploiting every opportunity, and particularly the so-called 'Jewish holidays,’ in order to commit crimes," says P.A. Supreme Sharia Judge Mahmoud al-Habbash.
An intact oil lamp was discovered in the City of David's Pilgrimage Road.
Music, speeches and candle lighting...
Called “Or Eitan” or “Share the Light,” the project allows Jews all over the world to upload photos of themselves lighting candles and wishing Happy Hanukkah to their family, friends and the entire Jewish people.
By Israel Hayom
With Israel's COVID-19 infection rate at 1.4 percent, Health Ministry Director General Hezi Levy says that the increase in morbidity could lead to new coronavirus restrictions.
The community had gathered to light Chanukah candles to be followed by a Chanukah party when the machete wielding terrorist attacked them.
Ari Fuld uncovers and explores the real miracle and lessons of Chanukah.
The Hebron Fund is raising $1 million for Israel’s most ancient and most strategic Jewish community – Hebron.
Netanyahu keeps an eye our for the impending rain storm.
The eternal war of the Hellenists against the Torah.
The Hanukkah holiday, and the fact that some people are upset about Christmas celebrations by immigrants to Israel.
Rod Bryant and Rabbi Federow breaks down the details of Chanukah from it's history to lessons for the post modern Jewish community.
The sites of the Maccabbees fill up Judea and Samaria.
Join Rabbi David Aaron and Leora Mandel in our Chanukah special and learn how to uplift your life through Miraculous Living.
President Trump talks Jerusalem, Israel, Jews, America and Chanukah.
How did a small group of Maccabees defeat the huge Seleucid Greeks army?
Yehudis understood that her only hope lay in her willingness to risk her very life.
By Batya Medad
Hopefully,Netanyahu has gotten sufficiently angry and disgusted to recognize that his trying to be a reasonable "Centrist" isn't working. We need a zealot who only tries to please G-d. A Maccabee.
By JNi.Media
'Our answer to the great darkness emanating from the UN is to increase the light.'
By Mindy Stein
It seems the Chanukah party co-hosted in Washington by the country of Azerbaijan and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations was THE Chanukah party to attend in the Capital
Many long hours were spent carefully planning for the Greek attack. Finally, all that could be done was done and the city waited tensely for the Greek hordes to come.
The mitzvah to recite Hallel that Chazal instituted regarding Chanukah was in fact a direct result of the miracle of Chanukah; however, its essence is not to publicize the miracle but rather to give thanks for the miracle.
Yossi settled down with some chocolate coins to study for a test on hilchos Chanukah. Suddenly, there seemed to be a commotion in the street.
By Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo
The Maccabees knew logically there was no chance of their revolt succeeding, but God created a notion of revolt in the minds of the Maccabees and correctly they followed this heavenly directive.
Funny, seasonal comedy.
Families in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem light their Chanukiot.
The UNSC resolution 2334 passing right before Hanukkah is no coincidence.
Must Israel still be afraid of Obama?
Can you take the Hellenism out of the Jew?
Mattisyahu knew that Antiochus would be enraged when he heard what had happened, so he and his sons fled to the Judean Hills.
By JNi.Media
He did not mention that, had the Maccabees redeemed the Holy Temple today, they would surely have been condemned by the UN Security Council, with the US abstaining, because said Holy Temple stood in 'Occupied East Jerusalem.'
A joyful and Happy Chanukah to all from your friends at The Jewish Press Online.
Question: If someone forgot to recite Al Hanissim in Shemoneh Esreh or Birkat Hamazon on Chanukah, does he have to go back and repeat them? Moshe Jakobowitz Brooklyn, NY
Why the Chanukkah miracles matter to the world today.
Tosafos points out that this answer is not fully satisfactory since there are other mitzvos, such as affixing a mezuzah, that require having a house.
The simple fact is the Forward hates everything Jewish except left-wing Yiddish protest chants.Its editor's latest rant is entitled, "Why I Detest Hanukkah, and Why All Right Minded Jews Should Too"
The Hebrew word Chanukah means "dedication." When the Greeks challenged Jewish life, a few courageous Jews took to the hills of Judea in open revolt against this threat.
Behind each is a tale of time and place that, framed against various religious, political, social, cultural, and artistic milieus, can provide deep insight into Jewish historical leitmotifs.
In the end, the kingdom was divided into three main parts and the tiny kingdom of Judea fell to the Syrian-Greeks.
By Pnina Baim
I am a huge fan of shared family experiences...
By JNi.Media
A pro-Trump protester yelled at Sharon Kleinbaum, clergywoman of LGBT Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, 'You would have been on the side of Antiochus rather than Judah the Maccabee.'
There’s no better place to celebrate Chanukah than in the country where it all began.
By JNi.Media
The coin bears on one side a vine leaf and the statement 'Freedom of Zion.' On the opposite side it bears a standing cup and the statement 'Second year of the great rebellion' – the year 67 CE.
By dvora
Chanukah marks the birthday of Chabad of South Broward. The organization runs over 45 programs and agencies.
By JNi.Media
Strangely enough, the Knesset legislation known as the Aliyah Day Act 5776-2016 states that on the 7th of Cheshvan the country will celebrate the Israelites' entrance into the Land of Israel on the 10th of Nissan.
By JNi.Media
It is impossible to paint lipstick on either of these pigs, but in the competition between Halloween and Christmas over which of the two holidays is more dangerous Halloween wins out, hands down.
Candle lighting on the 8th night of Chanukah in Meah Shearim.
The Connecticut/Westchester branch of Friends of the IDF arranged for a Hanukkah party for Givati soldiers.
By Ari Abramowitz & Jeremy Gimpel
Tune in to this Hanukkah special to find out how Albert Einstein’s paradigm shattering discovery of E=MC2 dealt a final blow in the age old battle between the Hellenists and the Hebrew prophets.
By JNi.Media
Hundreds of the Bnei Menashe community from across northeastern India gathered Sunday in the town of Churachandpur in the Indian state of Manipur to light the first Hanukkah candle.
PM Netanyahu lit the Chanukiah at the Kotel on the first night of Chanukah.
By JNi.Media
Research showed that the soldiers prefer jam-filled doughnuts over other fillings so this year 80% of the purchase is for jelly doughnuts and 20% chocolate.
New immigrants, including small children and a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, went through the ordeal of tasting Jews' favorite unhealthy snack.
President Rivlin says in a video message: "It is no coincidence that the symbol of…Israel is the Menorah, the symbol of Jewish independence, which lights our path."
Sufganiot (doughnuts) for sale at the Marzipan bakery in the Machane Yehuda shuk in Jerusalem, before the holiday of Chanukah.
Observant Jews cringe every year that Chanukah and Christmas overlap, leading to sacrilegious combinations of customs, but the kosher industry is losing out when the two holidays are totally separate, such as this year Chanukah beings next Sunday night, December 6, and ends eight days later, almost two weeks before the Christians holiday. Industry experts […]
The CEO of Ora's Amazing Herbal found that starting a campaign to help victims of terror was as satisfying as starting her own business.
By JNi.Media
Arabs burned the site that the Palestinian Authority is committed by the Oslo Accords to guard and to allow access by Jews.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
When Mark Halawa lights his family’s menorah during Chanukah, it is not without recalling his unique journey as a Kuwaiti Muslim to Orthodox Judaism.
A father and son scuba dive in Eilat. It turns out that Eilat is an incredibly popular destination for religious Israelis on Chanukah, and scuba diving is a very popular family activity. Unlike how the situation was decades ago when you could barely find a kosher restaurant, there are now 3 or 4 Kosher L'Mehadrin […]
The decision to not publicly light the Menorah in Sydney, epitomizes the eternal dilemma of Judaism and Jews in the Diaspora.
Israeli soldiers holding (and eating) 'sufganiyot'- doughnuts traditionally eaten on Hanukkah, as they pose for a pictures on the 2nd night of Hanukkah at a candle lighting ceremony held near the Gush Etzion junction. This particular lighting ceremony was held at a memorial spot in commemoration of the three Jewish teenagers who were kidnapped and […]
In the boy's bag police found a Chanukiah, oil candles and matches.
August 7, 2026 
