Lighting the menorah candles is one of the most common Hanukkah traditions. Even if you don’t know much about the Jewish religion, you probably recognize the candelabras that appear in windows ...

One candle is lit each day of Hanukkah. The menorah is usually placed in a window or a doorway. The holiday celebrates the triumph of a Maccabees in reclaiming their temple after it was desecrated ...

Nevertheless, the Maccabees succeeded in rededicating the Second Temple, and on Hanukkah we light candles to remember both the military victory and the miracle of a single day’s supply of oil ...

Nearly 500 days after Hamas gunmen seized him from a roadside bomb shelter in southern Israel, Alon Ohel managed to get a ...

CBS News' Miami's Trish Christakis is in South Beach where a 9-foot menorah will be lit on the first night of Hanukkah, which coincides this year with Christmas. Holiday food treats include jelly ...

That’s Hanukkah’s true message, to add more goodness and kindness in the world with each lit candle.” Rabbi Steve Nathan echoed, “Let’s just remember that our job, even in the face of ...

Israel's Consul General in New York, Ofir Akunis, lit candles at a Chabad event in downtown Manhattan. "We are now fighting for our land, for our state and for our faith. Just like 2000 years ago.

Sophia’s Mum: Sophia, do you know why we’re making candles? Sophia: Yes. Because… because it is Hanukkah. Narrator: Hanukkah is a Jewish festival which celebrates the rededication of a ...

The Huge Menorah, also called a hanukkiah, is a key symbol during Hanukkah. It’s celebrated as the Festival of Lights. This festival remembers the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem after a ...

This Christmas, as presents are being put away and holiday dinners wind down, Jewish families will light their first Hanukkah candle — marking only the fifth time since 1900 that these ...

President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog lit the eighth Hanukkah candle on Wednesday, together with residents of Kibbutz Be’eri, who have been displaced and hosted over the past year ...