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The miracle of the oil transforms a national holiday marking a military victory into a Jewish holiday celebrating the triumph of faith.

NASA International Space Station astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli will pin candles on a felt menorah to honor Hanukkah, the Jewish festival that begins Dec. 7.

Jewish festivals, holidays commonly observed by the Jewish community. Below is a summary of the major Jewish holidays, which traditionally begin at sunset on the previous evening. For fuller treatment of the Jewish calendar and its cycle of Jewish religious observance, see Jewish religious year.

Molly Pepper Steemson pens a letter of note to her favourite element of Hanukkah: latkes, doughnuts and all things fried

Members of the Jewish community in Calgary gathered in the atrium of city hall on Thursday night for the first day of Hanukkah without the city’s leader in attendance.

Hanukkah, the annual Jewish festival lasting eight nights and days, commemorates the rededication of the Secon...

As the candles burned low, congregants from Chabad of Deerfield sang and danced beneath the Hanukkah menorah to usher in the first night of the Jewish holiday. The eight-night holiday began at sundown on Thursday, and starts with the lighting of the Hanukkah menorah. More than 60 people gathered for a public lighting of the menorah at Deerfield Village Center to celebrate the first night. ...

From carving menorahs on stolen blocks of wood to creating makeshift wicks from scraps of fat and used loose threads, concentration camp inmates devised covert ways to mark the holiday.

Back in 1985, the Temple Sholom was firebombed, most of the building was largely destroyed but a few items were saved including a Menorah, which now sits at the synagogue's current location in Oak Street.

Hundreds gathered on the Krentzman Quad to kick off the eight-day Jewish holiday also known as the Festival of Lights.