Today, light is ambient and inexpensive. We leave it on without noticing. Against that backdrop, the requirement of a steady flow of pure oil for the Mishkan’s lighting can easily be underestimated.

Hence, a society that stands for nothing will fall for anything.

MPPD Chief of police, David Norris, lights the menorah with his wife Nicole It was less than 24 hours after the news of a horrifying attack at a similar Menorah lighting in Sydney’s Bondi Beach ...

Temple B’nai Abraham of Elyria marked the fifth night of Chanukah on Dec. 18 with a Community Menorah Lighting in Avon Lake. The brief ceremony attracted about 50 attendees to Veterans’ Memorial Park ...

Days after celebrating its first-ever Hanukkah ceremony, the Miami-Dade County Tax Collector’s Office reported it was targeted by a vandal who destroyed a menorah outside its entrance. City of Miami ...

As daylight faded on a cool evening in Old Town Square, hundreds of families and children gathered Dec. 21 for Fort Collins’ annual menorah lighting ceremony. Held at 5 p.m., the event marked the ...

A menorah from the Joseph Weingarten Chabad Jewish Center in Santa Rosa, Calif., stands in Alex Thomas Plaza in Ukiah during the last night of Hanukkah event on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025. (Sydney ...

The state of Ohio is now home to its own menorah. Unveiled at a Chanukah menorah lighting on Dec. 15 held at the governor’s residence in Bexley, Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann told the Columbus Jewish News ...

Chabad of Norwich held a public menorah lighting on the eighth night of Hanukkah. The ceremony honored the victims of the Bondi Beach massacre, emphasizing light over darkness. Rabbi Aizik Schwei ...

Despite the darkness that came with the Bondi Beach massacre, thousands of people have helped bring light through attending public Hanukkah celebrations around the world, Rabbi Aizik Schwei said.