Because of the holiday's timing and the general desire by corporate America and elected officials to include Jewish Americans in annual Christmastime festivity, Chanukah is the most commercialized and ...

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 ...

Each winter, Chanukah arrives with candle lighting, familiar songs, and a story many learned as children: a small jar of oil that should have lasted one day somehow burned for eight. Darkness gave way ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — The College of Charleston Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program, the City of Charleston and the Chabad of Charleston hosted its annual Chanukah in the Square event on Sunday, ...

Every year as Chanukah approaches, I return to a scene from my childhood on Long Island in the 1950s and 60s, a landscape where Christmas lights were as ubiquitous as rotary dial phones, yet Jewish ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Tampa Bay Jewish Community continues to celebrate Chanukah through various local events despite the recent tragedy in Australia. “When you see the Menorah, it reminds you that ...

Chanukah, commemorating the Maccabees’ revolt against the anti-Jewish Seleucids during the Second Temple period, is the most Zionist of Jewish holidays. In winning independence from their oppressors, ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — The Lowcountry’s Jewish community will gather Sunday for its 18th annual Chanukah extravaganza in Marion Square. Chanukah in the Square 2025 will feature live music, food ...

CHARLESTON , S.C. (WCIV) — Chanukah in the Square is returning to Charleston this December, promising plenty of family-friendly fun and good food. The event is scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 14 at Marion ...

Of all the holidays on the Jewish calendar, Chanukah, which began last Sunday evening, has always been one of my favorites. Even when I was younger and far less observant, I appreciated the holiday’s ...

Josh Hammer is Newsweek senior editor-at-large, host of “The Josh Hammer Show,” senior counsel for the Article III Project, and a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation. His first book is ...