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 ...

During each night of Hanukkah, you light one candle for each night plus an additional one called the shamash, the "helper" candle, which is lit first each night and used to light all the others.

The annual event features the lighting of a large pink menorah.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) Hanukkah, an important holiday in the Jewish calendar, is celebrated for eight days every year.

love walking around large light displays, but typically our Christmas celebrations involve Chinese food and a good movie. This year, though, the first candle of Hanukkah will be lit on Dec. 25.

There are menorahs with seven candles and nine candles. The nine-candle menorah is used during Hanukkah. One candle is used for each of the eight days of Hanukkah and the center candle is used to ...

The first candle of Hanukkah was lit by rabbis at the Western ... the National Menorah Lighting ceremony near the White House. A large menorah towered over the crowd leaving a lighting ceremony ...

(Sam is otherwise the picture of vigorous health.) Jay and Tory meet cute over a box of Hanukkah candles — she dispatched to buy them by her grandmother, he by his grandfather — a supposedly ...

During each night of Hanukkah, you light one candle for each night plus an additional one called the shamash, the "helper" candle, which is lit first each night and used to light all the others. So, ...