Hanukkah came a bit late this season, beginning at nightfall on December 25, 2024 and concluded on the evening of January 2, ...

Chabad, a national Jewish church organization, now hosts over 15,000 menorah lightings around the globe, including landmarks like the Great Wall of China. Jimmy Carter was the first president to light ...

President Klaus Iohannis and prime minister Marcel Ciolacu reaffirmed Romania’s intention to combat anti-Semitism and promote the memory of Holocaust victims with the occasion of the International Day ...

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Monday evening was filled with unity and joy for one traditional Jewish congregation ... triumph of light over darkness when Jews reclaimed the second temple in ...

Jewish religious leaders recited prayers and psalms for Haleva during the ceremony. After the recitation, the co-chair of the Turkish Jewish community, Isak Ibrahimzadeh, shared his feelings about ...

According to Jewish ... the amount of light that is added to the world when we do what we need to do,” he said. The ceremony included a blessing by Richard Sternberg, of Temple Beth El, and ...

NARA--Todaiji temple, a UNESCO World Heritage site, will partially ease COVID-19 restrictions and reopen the Shunie torch-bearing ceremony to the public during the main event from March 1 to 14.

Once lit, the shamash is used to light the ... of Chanukah: Jewish people overcoming their “overwhelming” enemies Chanukah commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem ...

A historian of the Holocaust and curator of the Auschwitz exhibition, now in Toronto, invites all who gather on Jan. 27 to ...

The ceremony, “In the Glow of the Bethlehem Light of Peace and of the Lights of Chanukah,” was organized by the Abraham J. Heschel Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations. It is the third time ...

But a small group of Jewish people fought and drove them from Jerusalem, reclaiming the temple. Despite having a one-day supply of oil to light the ... At Sunday's ceremony, battery-operated ...