NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- The Jewish holiday Hanukkah starts on Sunday night. Children will spin the dreidel, families will light the menorah and some will debate an age-old question. What's the correct ...

(RNS) — Almost every American Jewish family celebrates Hanukkah in some form. And yet, many American Jews find the story of Hanukkah complex, bewildering, confusing and contradictory. That is where I ...

Yes, the first day of Hanukkah is on Christmas this year, Dec. 25. It begins at sundown. Hanukkah ends at sundown on Jan. 2. Why is Hanukkah so late this year? Hanukkah always begins on the 25th of ...

Editor’s Note: Amy Klein is the author of “The Trying Game: Get Through Fertility Treatment Without Losing Your Mind,” and is working on a book about older motherhood. The views expressed here are her ...

Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann is the director of Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center of Columbus and director of LifeTown Columbus. My father, Joseph, was a Holocaust survivor. On April 11, 1945, he turned 17 ...

Hanukkah is a joyful occasion also known as the Festival of Lights. Starting at sundown on Thursday, Dec. 7, many metro Phoenix residents will celebrate for eight days until sundown on Friday, Dec. 15 ...

A holiday about a military victory also celebrates the triumph of the human soul, writes a chaplain at Brown University. (JTA) — Last summer, I became a chaplain at Brown University, a campus at which ...

MODI’IN, Israel — Hanukkah is about to be celebrated by Jews worldwide. For some Israeli Jews, the holiday pervades life year-round, because they live where the history is believed to have happened.

Were it not for its proximity to Christmas, Hanukkah would be unknown to most non-Jews and it would not be celebrated by most non-religious Jews. The proof is that the other post-Hebrew Bible holiday, ...