PLATTSBURGH — Hanukkah has more than 20 spelling variations, which all refer to the Jewish celebration known as the Festival of Lights. The eight-day holiday begins at sundown Sunday, a little earlier ...

Loveland’s menorah lighting Thursday night, celebrating the fifth night of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, was the largest turnout for the event the city has seen since it began nearly 20 years ago, the ...

Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish festival in December that honors the miracle of the Temple menorah burning for eight nights. In 2025, it runs Dec. 14–22 and is celebrated with menorah lighting, ...

This week, Jews around the world will gather to celebrate Hanukkah. Most know Hanukkah as the festival of lights, emphasizing the miracle by which one-night's worth of oil lit the Temple menorah in ...

First night of Hanukkah at Sinai Temple, from left Rabbi Erez Sherman and Rabbi Nicole Guzik On Sunday evening, the first night of Hanukkah, menorahs were lit across Los Angeles — from downtown to ...

Hanukkah begins at sundown Dec. 14 and continues to nightfall Dec. 22. The Jewish festival, sometimes called the Festival of Lights, hearkens back to the restoration of Jerusalem and the rededication ...

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 ...

Hanukkah — often referred to as the festival of lights — reaffirms the ideals of Judaism, commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem by lighting candles over the span of eight ...