However, the Second Book of the Maccabees (c. 124 BCE), written in Egypt, notes that Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days ...

Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish festival of lights, begins at sundown on Sunday, Dec. 14, with the lighting of the first ...

In Pikesville, Mosi Treuhaft is busy preparing trays of latkes for Hanukkah catering orders at Knish Shop — but this year, he said, many customers are ordering them “loaded,” with pastrami, corn and ...

Josh Peck and Robby Hoffman have vastly different ideas about a few core aspects of celebrating Hanukkah. “You taught me ...

The tradition is a reminder of what Jewish practice calls the “miracle of the oil” — a story from later rabbinic tradition commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the ...

A concert hall canceled the performance several months ago but then reached a compromise in which three concerts will be held ...

(RNS) — The Hanukkah lights remind us that nothing, not even nature, is forsaken by God.

(JTA) — Two months after they were taken hostage, and eight months before they would be murdered, the Israelis who would later be known as the “Beautiful Six” were herded into a new section of the ...

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