Hanukkah

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s Hanukkah video featuring radical leftist actor Mandy Patinkin and his family sparked backlash online, with critics slamming the appearance as a “staged performance” and accusing the Democratic Socialist of cynically co-opting the holiday for political cover amid deep concerns over his antisemitic rhetoric and anti-Israel record.

New York City is witnessing a surge in violent, targeted assaults on Jewish individuals during the Hanukkah holiday, part of a broader pattern of rising antisemitism and heightened holiday‑season security concerns.

Conservative commentator Mark Levin offered praise for President Donald Trump’s role and significance in the Jewish community, during a Hanukkah reception at the White House on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump holds a Hanukkah reception at the White House on Tuesday, December 16.

A fruit shop owner from Syria has been labeled a hero after video footage surfaced of him wrestling an alleged gunman behind a terror attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday evening.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday the mass-casualty terrorist shooting that killed at least 11 people at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney came after he warned left-wing Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese months ago that Canberra’s policies were “promoting and encouraging antisemitism.” He further charged that Australia “replaced weakness with weakness and appeasement with more appeasement” as Jewish blood was spilled.

This year’s Hanukkah celebrations in Chile were disrupted as a result of a series of antisemitic remarks by local politicians and acts of vandalism.

Though the holidays often overlap, it is only this year — and every 19 years after that — that the first night of Hanukkah is also on Christmas Day.

Hanukkah in London saw a series of antisemitic incidents, including members of the Jewish community abused and public menorahs vandalised.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Thursday that it had suspended several soldiers who were seen in a widely-shared video singing Hanukkah songs through the loudspeaker of a minaret on a mosque during a counter-terror operation in Jenin.

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff has been the subject of glowing profiles about his Jewish faith, prior to a bizarre social media post Monday.

President Joe Biden trashed Israel and the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a private fundraiser in Washington, DC, on Friday, after telling guests at the White House Hanukkah party the night before of his admiration for Israel.

President Joe Biden told guests at the White House Hanukkah party on Monday evening that “I am a Zionist,” though he prefaced it by saying that residents of the South did not like that.

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, tried to explain the Hanukkah story on Monday — and failed spectacularly.

South Africa has seen public Hanukkah celebrations canceled as the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has entertained leaders of the Hamas terrorist organization on a solidarity visit to the country.

Israeli troops observed the first night of Hanukkah on Thursday night by lighting candles on the battlefield — and, in one case, in the midst of “Palestine Square,” at the heart of Gaza City, where Hamas recently filmed propaganda videos with Israeli hostages.

A public menorah lighting has been canceled by an arts festival in Williamsburg over concern that it would amount to endorsing Israel.

Amichai Chikli, Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, told Breitbart News on Sunday that Jews around the world should place their menorah lamps proudly outside their homes this Hanukkah holiday.

A memo from a Wisconsin deputy city administrator discouraged employees from putting up “religious decorations” in “red and green colors” for the holidays in public buildings in order to be “inclusive.”

Southern California temperatures soared into the high 70s and low 80s on Christmas Day, allowing residents and tourists to enjoy the beach as friends and relatives further east and north were suffering frigid conditions.

A man was arrested Sunday night after Nazi symbols were found carved into the base of a large menorah in Beverly Hills on the first night of Hanukkah. Officers responded to reports of a man vandalizing a menorah near Sunset

BERLIN — Holocaust survivors from around the globe are marking the third day of Hanukkah together with a virtual ceremony as Jews worldwide worry about a sharp increase in antisemitism in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere.

Jewish communities around the world began observing the festival of Chanukah (or Hanukkah) on Sunday evening, lighting a candelabra called the Menorah (or Chanukiyah) for the first of what will be eight nights.

A Jewish man was violently attacked by a knife-wielding assailant in a north London supermarket who said he wanted to “find a Jew to kill.”

Vice President Kamala Harris praised President Joe Biden as a “man of deep faith” on Thursday even after the president defended the right of a woman to abort her unborn child.

President Joe Biden reflected on his age at a Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony at the White House on Wednesday, recalling speaking to some younger people on his staff before the event about his many trips to Israel.

Shmuley Boteach, rabbi and author of Kosher Hate: How To Fight Jew-Hatred, Racism, and Bigotry, described the continuity of Jewish people as proof of the divine hand in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

The first night of Chanukah, also transliterated as Hanukkah, begins on Sunday evening, November 28, with the lighting of an eight-branched candelabra called the menorah, or chanukiah, shortly after sunset. It continues for eight nights and days.

An Israeli couple who were detained eight days ago in Turkey on suspicion of espionage after being caught taking photographs of the Istanbul palace of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan were freed Thursday morning in what is being hailed as a “Hanukkah miracle.”

Police arrested four people, two of them illegal immigrants, in the Paris no-go suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis on suspicion of assaulting a Jewish family which was celebrating Hanukkah.

A delegation from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain took part in a Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Monday, in what was hailed by the holy site’s chief rabbi as a “Hanukkah miracle.”

Jews observed the holiday of Hanukkah (or Chanukah) in public for the first time in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), on Thursday, following the peace deal between Israel and the UAE under the auspices of U.S. President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump attended a Hanukkah celebration at the White House on Wednesday, where he said he would still win the 2020 election.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday marked the third anniversary of U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital by thanking President Donald Trump and hanging a copy of the American president’s proclamation on the wall of the cabinet room beside a 1948 proclamation by then-president Harry Truman recognizing the new State of Israel.

Israel could declare the coronavirus pandemic over as early as March 2021, thanks to Operation Warp Speed vaccines.

At a press conference in New York City on Monday, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) commented on the five people stabbed in an attack at a rabbi’s home on the seventh night of Hanukkah in Rockland County, NY.