The shamash, or "attendant" candle, is lit first and used to light one other candle on the first night of Hanukkah, with one more candle added every night. Dreidel, a game of chance with a ...

We read at least one Hanukkah book every night of the holiday, and these days there’s a wide selection of titles to choose from. Janet says “Sharing stories together helps build shared ...

Every year in November or December, Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, is celebrated for eight days and nights in a row. The festival begins on the 25th day of Kislev, the ninth month in the ...

Rachel Friedman is happy. Not only does she have two weeks off school for the holidays, but the first night of Hanukkah is tomorrow! Rachel and her friend, Maya, decide to come up with a list of eight ...

A candle for each night of the festival and an extra one called the shammash, Hebrew for helper, which is used to light the others. During Hanukkah, some children's families give them gelt ...

Krisnsky prefers writing Hanukkah with an H instead of a C-H ... The light miraculously burned for eight nights. It's a holiday that commemorates the time when a small group of Jews called ...

Many Jewish communities designate one night of Hanukkah as a night to give back. Talking about the causes you care about and humanitarian crises around the world can also teach children that the ...

It was the first night of Hanukkah, when Jews light candles. The community members who use the yeshiva structure, which used to be a public school, were not in the building when the fire broke out ...

Hanukkah comes and she receives one perfect gift for each of the eight nights of the celebration. But who is sending these mysterious gifts? Which of her suitors knows her so well?