The Hanukkah menorah, or hanukkiah ... with the lamp becoming formalized in metal or clay in the Middle Ages. The hanukkiah, the nine-branched candelabrum, likely got its start among German ...
The Harvard Menorah debating team will make its first western trip this year, in order to debate against the Menorah Society of Northwestern University. The debate will be held on April 19 ...
At a White House candle lighting ceremony Wednesday night in the East Room in front of 150 people, Emhoff and his wife Kamala Harris talked about displaying a menorah in the window of one’s ...
It commemorates ancient Jewish victory over the powerful Seleucid empire, which ruled much of the Middle East. A small amount of oil to light the menorah in the temple in Jerusalem, that should ...
(JTA) — An unprecedented exhibit centered on the image, history and symbolism of the seven-branched menorah has opened in Rome. Titled “Menorah: Cult, History and Myth,” the exhibition is a ...
Kotler received the menorah from his grandmother, Leah Kotler, a Holocaust survivor from Belarus. “It made me feel how important it is to connect with tradition and my Judaism,” he said.
Menorah during Hanukkah in new community in the Negev honoring fallen IDF Officer Col. Yonatan Steinberg (photo credit: Hashomer Hahadash) Hanukkah celebrations in Chile met opposition this year ...
For over a decade, Metro Detroit's Jewish community has come together at Campus Martius on the first night of Hanukkah for Menorah in the D. This is the 14th year Menorah in the D has taken place ...
Thousands are expected to gather at Campus Martius in downtown Detroit on Dec. 25 for Menorah in the D, the city’s largest public celebration of Hanukkah. The annual event, which begins at 5 p.m ...
Support and donations have come in from across the world after a Hannukah menorah was vandalised. The candelabrum, known as a hanukkiah, has been in Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire, for the past three ...