Hanukkah

Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed Sunday night at a Hanukkah party in New York that she has Jewish ancestry.

Talk radio star Michael Savage recounted attending the White House Hanukkah reception last week, where he says he told President Trump that under his administration “the Jewish People and other minorities are at the high water mark of their existence in America.”

Throughout the week of mourning and Hanukkah celebration, First Lady Melania Trump remained elegant and graceful with her black wardrobe.

Meadow Pollack’s father Andrew stood with Trump as he made his remarks. Meadow’s stepmom Julie and her brother Hunter also attended the event at the White House. 

President Donald Trump is giving remarks at a Hanukkah reception Thursday at 8:00 p.m. Eastern.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump welcomed guests at the White House to celebrate Hanukkah on Thursday, including eight Holocaust survivors.

Guests at the White House Hanukkah Party broke into chants of “Four more years!” on Thursday afternoon as President Donald Trump recounted the accomplishments of his administration on issues of importance to the Jewish community, including Israel.

President Donald Trump is giving remarks at a White House Hanukkah reception Thursday at 4:00 p.m. Eastern.

Pop megastar Ariana Grande sent former president Barack Obama an “I miss you” message over social media Monday.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump wished Jews a “Happy Hanukkah” on Sunday, just before families and communities gathered to light the first candle of the eight-night holiday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back hard Sunday evening against Israel Police’s bombshell recommendation earlier in the day that he be indicted for taking bribes in the Bezeq-Walla corruption probe, known as Case 4000.

Israeli security forces — including the Shin Bet security agency, Israel Police and IDF — have thwarted an attempt by the Gaza-ruling Palestinian terror group Hamas to kidnap Israelis in Samaria during Hanukkah.

This year’s Jewish holiday of Hanukkah — which starts at sundown on Tuesday, Dec. 12 and continues for eight days and nights through sundown on Wednesday, Dec. 20 — may be the best in recent memory. The holiday commemorates the successful

WASHINGTON, D.C. — During the White House Hanukkah Reception in the East Room on Thursday, President Donald Trump celebrated his historic recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city.

Last week, a group of vandals targeted the Chabad at San Diego State University (SDSU) and broke one of the branches of their free-standing menorah, which the Jewish people use to celebrate Hanukkah.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull danced with the Jewish community at a Synagogue in Sydney, as part of Chanukah celebrations.

TEL AVIV – A Jewish family from Arizona woke up this weekend to find their Hanukkah menorah had been twisted by vandals into the shape of a swastika.

North Beach Chabad’s massive six-foot menorah was stolen from San Francisco’s Washington Square Park in the early days of the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights holiday.

SANTA MONICA, California — A synagogue that was vandalized on the first night of Chanukah, with feces and food smeared across the front entrance near a menorah display, held a joyful public menorah lighting on Monday evening to celebrate unity and tolerance.

Rabbi Levi Shemtov rebuked the United Nations — and, by implication, the Obama administration — at the National Menorah Lighting in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Sunday evening, criticizing them for an anti-Israel resolution that passed on Friday.

A defiant Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu observed the second night of the Jewish holiday of Chanukah on Sunday evening by lighting the candles at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism’s holiest existing site.

SANTA MONICA, California — A local synagogue entrance was smeared with feces and food in an apparent antisemitic attack on the first night of Chanukah on Saturday night.

And, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Saturday night: just as in the first Chanukah, a redemption is coming.

Even as he allowed an anti-Israel resolution to pass at the UN Security Council, President Barack Obama wished Jews a “Happy Hanukkah” on Friday.

A group of Muslim ambassadors were among the guests at the Hanukkah party co-hosted by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Embassy of Azerbaijan at Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC on Wednesday evening.

TEL AVIV – For the first time in a century, Turkey’s Jewish community openly celebrated Hanukkah on Sunday with a candle-lighting ceremony in a main square in Istanbul, Turkey’s English-language newspaper the Daily Sabah reported.  The celebration was organized by

A Hanukkah-themed medley of One Direction hits has gone viral – and is set to brutally expose the generation gap in homes across North London. The Hanukkah mash-up was the brainchild of New York filmmaker Erez Cohen, and features several

Drake’s dad reveals the one gift his son always wanted as a little boy – a dreidel.  Instead of video games or remote-controlled cars, little Drake asked his parents to get him the spinning top that Jewish children all over

President Reuven and his wife, Nechama, were the guests of honor of US President Barack Obama for the White House Hanukka candle lighting ceremony on Wednesday evening. At the opening of the ceremony, Obama mentioned that in a meeting prior

JERUSALEM – Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings have released  a Hanukkah song video with lyrics that give even reigning Hanukkah king Adam Sandler a run for his gelt. The song attributes different Hanukkah elements for each day of the eight day