A Menorah, or Chanukiah, has nine branches, eight of which represent the eight nights of Hanukkah. The candelabra also pays a tribute to the Menorah inside the ancient Temple of Jerusalem ...

A Menorah, or Chanukiah, has nine branches, eight of which represent the eight nights of Hanukkah. The candelabra also pays a tribute to the Menorah inside the ancient Temple of Jerusalem ...

Lernhertz provided two references to medieval images where the menorah has the nine branches, as required for Hanukkah. One is a 1470 manuscript housed at the Israel Museum that shows a figure ...

The candelabrum has nine branches and the number of candles are ... The candle that sits atop of the menorah in the centre is called a shamash and is used to light the other candles since they ...

“Technically a ‘menorah’ has seven branches while a chanukah menorah, or chanukiyah, has nine branches, for eight candles and one shamash,” said Rabbi Rachel Barenblat of Williamstown. There is one ...

Nine feet tall, seven feet wide and weighing in at 250 pounds — Salem just got its own public menorah. This holiday season, menorahs will be lit around the world. Salem will light its first ...

elected officials and others gathered in the rain Wednesday night for an advance lighting of Reading’s downtown menorah, a nine-branch candelabrum traditionally used in observance of Hanukkah.

who combined his pride as an American and his Jewish heritage in this uniquely designed menorah, in which each of the nine branches is mounted with brass Statue of Liberty statuettes, embodying ...

It was of her family’s Hanukkah menorah, nine candles framed in a window through which a large Nazi banner could be seen hanging across the street. “‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says.