Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight ...

On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah.

This year, Hanukkah begins at sundown on Sunday, December 14, 2025 and ends with nightfall on Monday, December 22, 2025.

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Hanukkah is a holiday that celebrates the story of the Maccabees – Jews who rebelled against King Antiochus, the Seleucid ...

Chanukah and Hanukkah refer to the same holiday, and both are correct spellings for the Jewish Festival of Lights. While the ...

While Hanukkah falls on different dates every year on the Gregorian calendar you’re probably familiar with, it begins on the ...

Hanukah is the eight-day Jewish winter festival, beginning this year at sunset Sunday, December 14 (all Jewish days begin at ...

The Hebrew calendar is lunar, as opposed to the Gregorian calendar that most of the world uses. Because of that, the start of ...

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Join the Program in Judaic Studies for this year's Kwartler Family Lecture with Julia Rhyder on Tuesday, October 21. Abstract Commemorating war is such an integral part of the modern nation-state, and ...