Hanukkah—also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew—is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional ...

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Many said what it meant for the people of the Jewish faith to gather in the Lowcountry while celebrating with others with ...

The faiths in our family include skepticism. But we have come to think of prayers not as a list of wishes hurled into the ...

The tradition of building up to lighting eight oil lamps (plus one shamash, or servitor) over the Hanukkah period began in the 2nd century CE.

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Silverman served as deputy mayor of Sudbury from 1962 to 1964, and defeated Joe Fabbro to win the mayoral race in 1965. Sadly, he died less than a year later, in October 1966. Silverman was succeeded ...

Bialik taught Tishby that there are different outcomes to spinning and landing on each of the four sides of the dreidel.