Interestingly, we learned from the Filipinos at the Shabbat table that about 90% of Filipino men are circumcised by a mohel, ...
Because Judaism uses a modified lunar calendar, rather than the familiar solar calendar, the secular dates of Hanukkah vary from year to year.
The day after the Jewish Herald-Voice published an article about the event, the owner said someone shattered a window at his ...
It is terrifying to contemplate the mysterious existence and extraordinary doings of the Jews. Menorah in the window on the eighth night (credit: AMANDA FIELD) Like the Hanukkah lights ...
Griping about Hanukkah representation in the public sphere can be a pastime for some American Jews, who find themselves torn between lamenting that commercialization and assimilation have turned ...
Jews around the globe lit the first of eight candles on Wednesday and came together to celebrate and reflect on their history. The first candle of Hanukkah was lit by rabbis at the Western Wall in ...
It must have been an extraordinary experience when the kohanim in the days of the Hasmoneans suddenly realized that a tiny amount of oil that should have lasted for only one day would last for eight ...
Indeed, the Greek opposition to Judaism that we mark on Hanukkah was meant to end a few centuries later. This is because Europeans accepted the Jews’ monotheistic religion in the form of ...
“I’m sure that as you say and as Hanukkah says, the light will definitely overcome the darkness,” Zelensky told the rabbis. Ukraine’s Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky, lit candles with ...
Hanukkah, the Jewish “festival of lights,” commemorates a story of a miracle, when oil meant to last for one day lasted for eight. Today, Jews light the menorah, a candelabra with eight candles – and ...
It has fallen to every generation of Jews to determine how much openness is necessary, and how much is too much. That's the miracle of Hanukkah. (RNS) — Hanukkah is here, and with it ...