Happy Hanukkah! Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered to celebrate the first night of the festival of lights as Rabbi Shmuel M. Butman lit the world's largest menorah. See the celebration here.

TRENTON — The start of Hanukkah was marked in the ... with the lighting of a candle. A menorah outside of City Hall was lit for the first of eight nights of the Jewish holiday.

NEW YORK -- Thursday is the first night of Hanukkah ... It is Jewish tradition to light the menorah on Hanukkah as a proud display of religious identity, but for many this year, that tradition ...

The first light on a 13-foot tall menorah was lit using a hydraulic lift outside the State House in Concord on Wednesday to mark the first night of Hanukkah.Chabad Lubavitch organized the display ...

On Thursday just after the sun went down, the first night of Hanukkah, Eric Notkin decided to come ... and the two rose 20 feet into the night sky to light the menorah’s first of eight candles. “It’s ...

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 ...

On the first night of Hanukkah, one candle is lit from the eight candle menorah and there is a story behind this. The holiday of Hanukkah celebrates the victory over the Syrian Greeks and the ...

People from near and far traveled to downtown D.C. Sunday afternoon for the annual National Menorah lightning ceremony ... Second gentleman Doug Emhoff lit the first candle. He is the first ...

Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel with the help of the children in attendance lights the menorah’s farthest right candle signifying the first night of Hanukkah at the 2021 Hanukkah Lighting Ceremony on ...

Chabad of Toluca Lake presented an enlightening start on Sunday for Hanukkah ... candle on the menorah was lit (an extra candle, called the chumash, is used to light the other candles each night ...

The menorah at Carl Schurz Park gets reassembled ... shortly after it was lit in a ceremony celebrating the first night of Hanukkah. About 1,000 Jewish New Yorkers gathered at Carl Schurz Park ...