Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is a time of joy, celebration, and togetherness. This eight-day Jewish holiday commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem and is marked by lighting the menorah, sharing festive meals, and exchanging gifts. One of the best wa...
The most important of all Hanukkah traditions is the lighting of the menorah each evening. Also known as the Hanukkah lamp, the menorah recalls the Temple lampstand and is a simple or elaborate candelabra with eight branches plus a holder for the shammash (“servant”) candle that is used ...
Celebrated over eight days and nights, Hanukkah commemorates a people’s uprising and holy miracle from more than 2,000 years ago.
I’m the first to admit that candles from scratch can be a big to-do—even just thesimple, rolled sheets. Rejoice: all you really need are leftover Hanukkah candles, a bowl and a teakettle. Just twist two warmed Hanukkah candles to create one mini Havdalah candle. It’s an easy, che...
The hanukiah (or chanukkiyah) is a type of candelabrum that holds eight candles to commemorate the eight days that the oil burned and a ninth candle that sits apart, known as the shamash, or servant candle that lights the others. One candle is lit on the first night, another on the ...
Candle Lightingmarks the Start of Hanukkah; Jews around the World Celebrate Joyous HolidayJERUSALEM Jews around the world ushered in the eight-dayHanukkah festival Saturday evening,...By DeitchIan
Candle-lighting at the Kotel It is an annual tradition to watch the candle lighting ceremony at the Kotel, the site closest to the Hanukkah miracle. The candles will be lit in a magnificent menorah made entirely of bronze casting, more than 2 meters high and about 2 meters wide, weighing ...
reports emerge that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar's home has been surrounded. Meanwhile, as Hanukkah begins, a group of right-wing Israelis is marching through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City to the Western Wall for a candle-lighting ceremony, which Palestinians are calling a provocation...
On the evening preceding the first day of Hanukkah, the first candle is ceremonially lit, usually accompanied by songs and prayers. Each of the following 7 evenings, a new candle is ignited, so that all candles are burning on the last day of Hanukkah. The middle candle, called the shamash...
The Hanukkah celebration revolves around the kindling of a nine-branched menorah, known in Hebrew as the hanukiah. On each of the holiday’s eight nights, another candle is added to the menorah after sundown; the ninth candle, called the shamash (“helper”), is used to light the others....