As it does every year, the Loubavitch movement in France is pulling out all the stops to celebrate Hanukkah. This year, the ...

In 2023, Hanukkah returns from December 25, 2024 to January 1, 2025. During this Jewish holiday, which commemorates the ...

This year the traditional lighting of the Hanukiah, a nine-stemmed candelabrum, starts after nightfall on 25 December and ends on 2 January. Hanukkah last fell on the same day as Christmas in 2005 ...

Food traditions are a big part of cultural and religious holidays. On Hanukkah, it’s not just the candles that bring warmth and joy; its jelly-filled sufganiyot and golden cookies that sweeten the ...

Test your memory of 2024 in our four-part Christmas quiz - 52 questions for 52 weeks of the year. Part one covers January to ...

Listen: The Pope says "hope and kindness" leads to a more beautiful world The Pope has called for "hope and kindness" in a message for Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Pope ...

A church warden said she faced a catch-22 situation involving a 14 Century church's leaky roof, 500-year-old wooden angels and a number of bats. Beverly Vara said Huntingdonshire District Council ...

Clear, crisp winter air. Empty pavements. Desolate roads. The sound of your own footsteps in central London. Not a creature stirring, not even a siren. It’s not Covid, it’s not 28 Days Later, ...

Ree Drummond's family got a little bigger right before Christmas — and she and her husband Ladd Drummond are celebrating in style! The Food Network star, 55, and Ladd, also 55 — who share kids Alex, ...