Chanukah begins on Dec. 17 this year (and the evening of Dec. 16), and several celebrations are being planned in many communities in eastern Connecticut. Rabbi Yosuf Wolvovsky, director of the Chabad ...

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1. Chanukah חנוכה)) is education (חנוכ)-oriented. According to the first book of Maccabees, Judah the Maccabee instituted an eight day holiday on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev 165 BCE, in ...

Female IDF soldiers lighting Chanukah candles. Although Chanukah has been around for a long time, one shouldn’t think that it has always had the significance it has today. Ostensibly a minor ...

From bread and hot sauce to eco-friendly crafts and an eight-sided menorah, gifts with a purpose (and a sense of fun) for the Festival of Lights. ’Great miracles happen everywhere” spins on the ...