Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day, which has only happened four times since 1900. “This can be a profound opportunity for learning and collaboration and togetherness,” said Rabbi Josh Stanton, a vice president of the Jewish Federations of North America. The doughnut-like pastries were sufganiyot — a Hanukkah specialty — and buñuelos, And the …
News of a brawl between police and worshippers on Monday over a secret underground tunnel found connected to a historic Brooklyn synagogue was picked up quickly on social media, with posts spreading baseless claims about the passage, many laced with antisemitism. The conflict at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in New York City, which serves as the center of an …
Other public-lighting ceremonies are set in Paris at the Eiffel Tower and a towering menorah display in London's Trafalgar Square A menorah lighting ceremony is set to take place Thursday as organizers and Jewish leaders light the 'World's Largest Menorah' - in midtown New York City As Jewish people mark the start of Chanukah with menorah lightings taking place across …
