Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional ...

The start of this year's eight-day celebration of Hanukkah is especially poignant for Rabbi Yossie Shemtov, director of Chabad of Tucson, who is passing the torch to the youngest of his nine children.

WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman will help light the National Menorah near the White House to mark the start of Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish holiday. The ceremony will be ...

The first night of Hanukkah was a joyous one in Brooklyn, as hundreds of people from all over the country gathered to light the borough’s largest menorah in Grand Army Plaza. It was a cold night, said ...

Editor’s note: Video was from the first night of Hanukkah on Wednesday, Dec. 25. EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A West El Paso synagogue will have a public celebration of Hanukkah on Sunday, Dec. 29. Chabad ...

An Oklahoma City event celebrating Hanukkah often occurs at the beginning of the eight-day Jewish holiday, but this year's festivities will be on the fifth night of the Festival of Lights. The ...

On Sunday at sundown, Temple Ahavat Achim marked 10 years of the temple bringing light into the darkness for Hanukkah by constructing a hanukkiah, or nine-branched candelabrum, from borrowed lobster ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — Sunday’s annual Menorah lighting ceremony took place in Downtown South Bend. Due to the weather, the lighting was moved into the lobby of the Morris Performing Arts Center.

U.S. ambassador to Israel nominee Mike Huckabee celebrated the first day of Hanukkah in west Little Rock on Wednesday evening, helping to light a towering menorah and emphasizing his unwavering ...