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Soldiers light their Chanukiot on their tanks.
By COLlive.com
The Chabad House sign was proudly hung in a building in Beit Hanoun which has been damaged in the fighting and is surrounded by rubble.
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.
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.
"I know we're going to do a lot of great things together. Welcome back to Israel and best of luck, my friend."
The organizers are ushering in a “sense of normalcy and joy” in bringing back holiday programming to communities all across Israel.
By Jewish Press Staff Reporter
"She was later taken by ambulance while still undergoing CPR, to the Carmel Medical Center."
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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The website also has a section where the company describes the eight-day Jewish holiday.
Beit Tsur was an ancient town on the road between Hebron and Jerusalem where the last Hasmonean battle took place before they vanquished the Greeks, liberated the Temple and purified it.
The eternal war of the Hellenists against the Torah.
Good and evil, light and darkness. Join Gil Hoffman as he explains the lessons of Star Wars and Hanukkah are one and the same today on Inside Israel Today.
The Hanukkah holiday, and the fact that some people are upset about Christmas celebrations by immigrants to Israel.
Hear a true 'Maccabee' of today speak about the blood, sweat and tears the Jewish People suffered in the great war against the super power of the day, the Syrian-Greek Empire, and even of the assimilated 'Jewish establishment' of that time who didn't want to 'rock the boat'.
President Trump talks Jerusalem, Israel, Jews, America and Chanukah.
How did a small group of Maccabees defeat the huge Seleucid Greeks army?
The Maccabees and the latest anti-Israel resolution at the U.N.
What does Caroline Glick have to say about the UNSC Resolution that passed this week? Does this resolution give a green light to terrorism? On today's Israel Uncensored with host Joshua Hasten.
A perfect example of 'Let's you and him fight!'.
By Edwin Black
The Conference Chanukah party was timed to coincide with the official Obama's WH Chanukah party nearby and proved Israel has great ties with numerous Muslim countries and is NOT as isolated as feared.
By JNi.Media
Donald Trump is about to become the very first US president who has halachically Jewish grandchildren (the Clintons' son-in-law is Jewish, too, but that's just not good enough for Jewish law).
Families in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem light their Chanukiot.
By JNi.Media
'It’s so sad that at this time people should feel that they want to express themselves in such a negative way,' Chabad Rabbi Boruch Rabinowitz said.
Must Israel still be afraid of Obama?
Can you take the Hellenism out of the Jew?
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.'
Why the Chanukkah miracles matter to the world today.
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.
Are the Religious Really Living and Teaching 'Love your fellow Jew'?
The Maccabeats present their Hanukkah Hamilton parody - Hasmonean.
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.'
By JNi.Media
Say what you will, the man has great writers and – crucial – can deliver a line.
Do we have any brave Maccabees today that stand for truth?
Not really Sundays, but 6 long weekends a year.
Rivlin told the New York UJA Federation," We are all one family" and made it a point to refer to a Consrvative leader as a rabbi.
The Connecticut/Westchester branch of Friends of the IDF arranged for a Hanukkah party for Givati soldiers.
By JNi.Media
Among the children were many who had lost fathers in the line of duty or in terror attacks.
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.
Rivlin also will speak to senior officials and to the Brookings Institution.
Obama's Chief of Staff twisted Hanukkah into a holiday that is supposed to remind Jews of Muslim refugees, some of whom are proven terrorists.
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 […]
By JTA
Hebrew University will give its students the day off on Christmas for the first time ever. There will be no classes on Thursday, Dec. 25, a new vacation day on the university calendar. The students also had off on Sunday for Hanukkah. The university also has declared a vacation day for and placed on its […]
The question now is this definite proof that Jews lived in the ancient settlement near Carmel?
It’s cute, inventive and raises an interesting question n Jewish law on appointing a representative to perform a mitzvah.
Is Sydney also going to turn out the lights on Christmas trees?
By JTA
“It was crucial to my survival knowing that I was not forgotten.“
“This is the earliest evidence of the use of olive oil in the country, and perhaps the entire Mediterranean basin."
By Rachel Levy
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lost no time this year in publicly offering warm Chanukah greetings to the nation's Jewish community, even ahead of US Pres. Obama.
By JTA
Sotloff, a grandson of Holocaust survivors, made aliyah in 2005.
By JTA
Anti-Semites always are around to remind Jews to be scared.
By JTA
Vice President Joe Biden will assist in the lighting this year of the Hanukkah menorah on the ellipse in front of the White House. Biden’s participation on Dec. 16, the first night of the holiday, marks the 35th anniversary of the first lighting of the “National Menorah,” an event sponsored by American Friends of Lubavitch, […]
By JTA
Immigrants to Israel from seven countries will light Hanukkah candles Tuesday night simultaneously with Jews in seven other countries in a ceremony organized by the Ministry of Immigration and Absorption and The Jewish Agency for Israel. The candle lighting in Israel will take place at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, where 300 young […]
By JTA
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Rome’s main synagogue Sunday night and lit Hanukkah candles with his Italian counterpart Enrico Letta before he arrived at the Vatican for an audience with Pope Francis. Speaking to the Jewish community and the media at Sunday’s ceremony, Netanyahu reiterated his warnings that the recent agreement on Iran’s nuclear […]
How long do you want to live in America before realizing that you have not lived long enough in Israel?
By JTA
He urged the mayor’s office to cancel a public candle-lighting event on Mollard Square scheduled for Dec. 3.
By JTA
Nearly 70 years after the Holocaust, some European Jew still are afraid to be confident enough to be Jewish in public. Christina Zionists are trying to help them, buy aliyah to Israel would be a lot easier.
Hanukkah seems to be politically correct this year. So is the African American holiday Kwanzaa, both of which were honored with new US postage stamps. The Christians struck out this year – and are angry.
It now is official. This year’s rare coincidence of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving will be known as “Thanksgivukkah” where the Boston Tea Party took place, retiring Mayor Thomas Menino declared. The proclamation notes the special “diversity of all its citizens” and the values embodied by both Hanukkah and Thanksgiving, including “unity, hope and gratitude.” Thanksgiving and […]
My dad did not budge, finally releasing the two to cops who happened to be walking by.
Thank God it won’t happen again until 2070, and then in 2165, and then almost never. This may be your last chance to gobble up – or to avoid gobbling up – turkey-filled doughnuts for Thanksgivukkah.
By Batya Medad
The Holiday of Hanukkah takes place at the end of the month, when the moon is fading from the sky and its light has gotten dimmer.
The Jewish calendar is very slowly getting out of sync with the solar calendar, at a rate of 4 days per 1,000 years.
By Chabad.org
If one has only enough money to afford either a cup of wine for Shabbat kiddush or oil for his Hanukkah lamp, the mitzvah of Hanukkah takes precedence.
By JTA
Get set for the silly jokes and serious attempts to compare Thanksgiving with Chanukah. You may have only one more chance in your lifetime to enjoy, or suffer, cranberry latkes.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Nobel Laureate Robert Aumann are among ten individuals who have been named 2013 Orthodox Jewish All Stars by Jew in the City, the organization dedicated to re-branding Orthodox Jews and Judaism to the world through digital media. The awards will be presented on November 24 in New York City. […]
By JTA
The Anti-Defamation League accepted an apology from the retailer Hobby Lobby for an employee’s alleged comment that the store “doesn’t cater to you people.” Hobby Lobby was mired in controversy after a blogger reported that the chain neglected to stock Hanukkah items. After calling a New Jersey Hobby Lobby store and inquiring about the Hannukah […]
For the second time in office, US President Barack Obama has used a Hanukkah menorah from a hurricane-ravaged area to conduct the official White House Hanukkah celebration.
In honor of Hanukkah, the Huffington Post has put together a list of celebrities lighting the menorah this year - bet there are some you didn't know are Jewish!
By Orat@Muqata
I had often wondered, if Jews love Israel so much, why didn't they just get up and come here. The Mahram's Aliyah attempt showed that Jews did.
Michelle and I send our warmest wishes to all those celebrating Hanukkah around the world.
A large menorah covered in seashells and used to spread the light of Hanukkah at Miami Beach was vandalized on Sunday, scrawled with black graffiti stating “You Killed Jesus”.
Just in time for Hanukkah, an Israeli startup is helping kids to handle their gelt responsibly.
Celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, commemorated through the lighting of the traditional Hanukkah menorah, will be taking place across the world, according to an article by the Washington Post.
By David Wilder, Tazpit News Agency
Three thousand new apartments should be transformed into 30,000 new apartment buildings.
June 19, 2026 
