A person dressed as a dreidel performs during the National Menorah Lighting ceremony on the Ellipse south of the White House on Dec. 7, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Drew Angerer/Getty Images A ...

(credit: International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts/National ... Lernhertz provided two references to medieval images where the menorah has the nine branches, as required for Hanukkah.

On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multi-branched candelabra. In Hebrew, Hanukkah means “dedication,” and ...

Candles are added to the menorah from right to left (the way Hebrew is read), but kindled from left to right, with the newest ...

Now, one candle on a menorah, or hanukkiah, is lit each night for eight nights to remember the miracle of Hanukkah. Why do the dates of Hanukkah change every year? Hanukkah is based on the Hebrew ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A couple hundred people attended the lighting of the second menorah on Thursday night at Public Square in downtown Cleveland. Rabbi Yossi Freedman of the Downtown Chabad of ...

Hanukkah is always on the 25th day of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar. Hanukkah begins with the lighting of the first candle on the menorah. One candle is lit each night, until all candles are lit ...

The Jewish community center will host the lighting of a large menorah on the evening of Dec ... The reason for these different dates is that the Hebrew calendar and all Jewish holidays are ...

On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched candelabra. In Hebrew, Hanukkah means “dedication,” and ...