The Hanukkah menorah, or hanukkiah, is one of the religious objects most commonly found in the Jewish home. The tradition of building up to lighting eight oil lamps (plus one shamash, or servitor ...

Of course, if the Vatican actually had the ancient Jewish relics ... the re-creation in the exhibition. Both the menorah and the Temple’s showbread table, held to be a stand-in for the Ark ...

It was excavated from an ancient synagogue in the Galilee in 2009 and is the oldest carving of a menorah to have been found in Israel. The exhibition explores the fate of the solid gold menorah ...

Jewish people around the world light Hanukkah candles to celebrate an ancient miracle ... rededicate the Temple, they needed ...

The public menorah in Uptown Gig Harbor after the light ... The eight-day winter holiday commemorates the rededication of the Temple by the Maccabees. “Every one of us is a candle and our ...

(JTA) — The remains of an ancient synagogue dating back as far as the ... Among the remains was a plaque with a menorah motif and an inscription in Hebrew and Greek stating that it was donated ...

But a small group of Jewish people fought and drove them from Jerusalem, reclaiming the temple. Despite having a one-day supply of oil to light the menorah in the temple, it stayed lit for eight days.

Members of the Jewish Community Synagogue in North Palm Beach, who commission an artist to mold a sculpture of a menorah in the sand every Hanukkah, say the vandalism won’t stop the tradition.

A 10ft Menorah has been lit in Plymouth for the first ... means "re-dedication" and celebrates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem. It began on Sunday and lasts for eight days.