In a nod to the story of the Temple oil, traditional Hanukkah foods are fried and, according to the Reform movement, potato ...

Menorahs are often placed in windowsills to spread light outwards and are lit by adding another flame every night and ...

The eight-day-long Jewish holiday will start at sundown Dec. 25 and conclude at sundown Jan. 2. It begins on the Hebrew ...

(JTA) In 2013, there was the “Menurkey,” a turkey-shaped menorah, for the highly unusual overlap of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. Now, 11 years later, a new holiday-mashup menorah is making its ...

there he is on the cover of a catalog called “The Source for Everything Jewish,” decorating a menorah, spinning a dreidel with Minnie. That’s a traditional Hanukkah game: You spin the ...

Just as on Christmas, we talk about the star of Bethlehem and about Jesus ... One candle is lit each day of Hanukkah. The menorah is usually placed in a window or a doorway. A spinning top with ...

It took three attempts — with the crowd’s encouraging laughter — but Monday night marked the first time a Lehigh University president helped light a menorah to mark Hanukkah. About 100 ...

On each of the eight nights of Hanukkah, a candle in a menorah is lit ... See the Ventura County Star story at vcstar.com. Dave Mason covers East County for the Ventura County Star.