Judaism has always been open to what the world is learning and saying. It has fallen to every generation of Jews to determine ...

Jews around the globe lit the first of eight candles on Wednesday and came together to celebrate and reflect on their history ...

Like the Jews at the end of the Hanukkah story, Oct. 8 Jews are beginning to rededicate themselves. For some, as the Wall Street Journal reported, the change has been spiritual: Synagogues have ...

It isn’t about the gifts but about ‘publicizing the miracle,’ the light God gave the Jews.

Jews around the world are marking the start of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, which celebrates the rededication of the ...

Christmas and Hanukkah share a date this year. An important connection between them is that they are both celebrations of ...

Assimilation no doubt played a role in making Hanukkah the commercialized holiday it is today. But other factors shaped the ...

Jews began their eight-day-long festival of lights, called Hanukkah or Chanukah, on the evening of December 25, with prayers ...

A holiday that celebrates militarism and rejects assimilation — and vice versa — raises questions that occupy us this year, ...

"Hanukkah represents the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil, and spirituality over materialism," Palm Beach ...

We are all, whether we acknowledge it or not, living expressions of the flame of Hanukkah, which refuses to submit to mere ...

The lyrics of a traditional song — "Hanukkah, oh Hanukkah" — rang through the basement of Aiken's Adath Yeshurun Synagogue ...