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A Chanukah menorah in Jerusalem, Dec. 14, 2020. Photo by Mendy Hechtman/Flash90.
In age of AI images, actors, politicians issue unusual Passover messages
The actor William Shatner, and congressmen from New York and Florida, were among those to post images of Chanukah menorahs.
JNS Staff
April 15, 2025
President Isaac Herzog lights the eighth Chanukah candle in Kibbutz Hatzerim together with former Hamas captives, Jan. 1, 2025. Credit: Israeli President's Spokesperson.
Herzog lights eighth Chanukah candle with freed hostages
The Israeli president asked for forgiveness and offered words of encouragement, comfort and hope.
Jan. 2, 2025
The first public menorah was lit at Independence Mall in Philadelphia 50 years ago. Today, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement erects some 15,000 giant Chanukah menorahs on public squares acround the world. In this 1976 photo, the Philadelphia menorah towers over Rabbi Abraham Shemtov (bottom left), director of Chabad of Philadelphia. The menorah that year was a part of the city's Bicentennial celebrations. Credit: Lubavitcher Center of Philadelphia via Chabad.org/News.
Chabad’s public menorahs a constant in Chanukah celebrations worldwide
Five Chabad rabbis erected the first public menorah in Philadelphia in 1974. Now, 50 years later, roughly 15,000 giant menorahs are lit annually in public squares from Washington, D.C., to Melbourne, Australia.
Dovid Margolin
Dec. 26, 2024
A Chanukah menorah created by two Israel Police sappers out of fragments of rockets launched into Israel by Hezbollah. Credit: Courtesy.
The real message of Chanukah
To avoid both destruction and assimilation, Jews have to fight for who they are and what they stand for.
Melanie Phillips
Dec. 26, 2024
A menorah in Jerusalem during the Jewish holiday of Chanukah, Dec. 16, 2020. Photo by Mendy Hechtman/Flash90.
Miracles then and now
Chanukah reminds us to keep the fires burning.
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
Dec. 26, 2024
The world's largest chanukiyah with 25,000 balloons on display at Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petach Tikvah, Israel, on Dec. 25, 2024. Credit: Schneider Children's Medical Center.
Huge ‘chanukiyah’ with 25,000 balloons at Israeli hospital
The display at Schneider Children's Medical Center also features a gigantic yellow ribbon for the hostages in Gaza.
Dec. 26, 2024
Chanukah menorah. Credit: Cottonbro Studio/Pexels.
World extends Chanukah greetings ahead of holiday
The holiday is commemorated by the lighting of the menorah, symbolizing the rededication of the Second Temple.
Dec. 25, 2024
A family lights the chanukiyah in Jerusalem's Nachlaot neighborhood, on the third night of Chanukah, on Dec. 24, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
A guide to Chanukah 2024
As Jewish families worldwide prepare to welcome the holiday, here are some basics about the eight-day “Festival of Lights.”
Dec. 25, 2024
A Chanukah menorah created by two Israel Police sappers out of fragments of rockets launched into Israel by Hezbollah. Credit: Courtesy.
Israel Police sappers make Chanukah menorah from Hezbollah rockets
The "Lighting up the North" project, which will see the menorah lit up across northern Israel over the holiday, "shows our strength and power as a nation for good,” said Israel Police bomb-disposal specialist Yossi Hod.
Etgar Lefkovits
Dec. 24, 2024