Chanukah is often described as a festival of light, warmth, and resilience. That description is not wrong—but it is ...

Of all the holidays on the Jewish calendar, Chanukah, which began last Sunday evening, has always been one of my favorites.

Many Jews this year are struggling with how to celebrate Chanukah—whether because our joy has been tempered by the Hamas terror attacks on Oct. 7, the continued ...

Of course, God can do any miracle He wants, so it's never possible to say never. But intuitively and historically, barring a ...

The festival of Chanukah commemorates the Maccabees’ victory over the Syrian tyrant Antiochus IV, who had conquered Jerusalem and seized the Temple in his efforts to Hellenize Judea. Resisting ...

Thanksgiving is the great American holiday, a secular fete originally celebrating the crops we harvested, now celebrating not just the harvest, but also our freedom, our democracy and our way of life.

In light of the fact that I have just written an article about my twelve favorite Christmas songs, I would be remiss if I didn't write something about Chanukah as it begins tonight at sundown. For ...

Here's when Hanukkah 2025 begins and ends, why and how the holiday is observed and when Hanukkah will fall in 2026.

Chanukah is unquestionably the worst marketing disaster in the history of Judaism. Against a forest of magical twinkling Christmas trees, we Jews counter with a measly nine-branched candlestick.