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Watch the best Hanukkah movies to celebrate the festival of lights, including Eight Crazy Nights and The Night Before

Preparing for Hanukkah feels uniquely somber yet defiant this year for the Jewish communities in and around Miami Beach

Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, is an eight-day commemoration that begins Thursday.

Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas. Articles and op-eds in newspapers remind readers of that fact every year, lamenting that the Jewish Festival of Lights has almost become an imitation of the Christian holiday.

Havering Borough Council in east London had planned not to light Hanukkah candles from December 7 over concerns they could be vandalised

Havering Council’s decision to cancel celebrations for the upcoming festival of Hanukkah — and then rapidly u-turn — is a good example of how not to navigate community relations in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.

Traditional Hanukkah latkes are pancakes made from white potatoes and simply seasoned with salt, pepper and onion

The sky was rarely darker than on a moonless night in Theresienstadt. Of the 140,000 Czech Jews imprisoned in the concentration camp-ghetto in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a quarter died of disease or starvation. The rest were carted away, murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps in the East. Yet even in…

The council has made a hasty u-turn

The decision is branded 'miserable' by the head of the Antisemitism Policy Trust

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